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1 Kings 5:17

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And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

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  1. 1 Kings 5:15

    And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

  2. 1 Kings 5:16

    Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

  3. 1 Kings 5:18

    And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.