1 Kings 5:17
World English Bible (WEB)
The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
In context
15 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains,
16 besides Solomon’s chief officers who were over the work: three thousand three hundred who ruled over the people who labored in the work.
17 The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
18 Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
1 Kings 5:17 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
- KJV King James Version
- And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And the king commandeth, and they bring great stones, precious stone, to lay the foundation of the house, hewn stones;
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.