1 Kings 5:18

5:18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers, ¹  along with men from Byblos, ²  did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple. ³ 

1 Kings 6:7

6:7 As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry ⁴  were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.

¹ tn Heb “builders.”

² tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”

³ tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”

⁴ tn Heb “finished stone of the quarry,” i.e., stones chiseled and shaped at the time they were taken out of the quarry.