1 Kings 5:17

Christian Standard Bible ®

The king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
Then the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, precious stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the king commaunded them to bring great stones, costly stones, & hewed stones, for the foundatio of the house.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
King Solomon commanded them to cut large, expensive stones for the foundation of the Temple.

Revised Standard Version
At the king's command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.

World English Bible
The king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

King James Version (1611)
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye kynge commaunded, that they shulde breake out greate and costly stones, namely frestone, for the foundacion of the house.

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.

Bible in Basic English
By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

Update Bible Version
And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

New English Translation
By royal order they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple's foundation with chiseled stone.

New King James Version
And the king commanded them to quarry large stones, costly stones, and hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the temple. [fn]

Contemporary English Version
He ordered the workers to cut and shape large blocks of good stone for the foundation of the temple.

Complete Jewish Bible
"You know that David my father wasn't able to build a house for the name of Adonai his God, because of the wars that beset him from every side, until Adonai put his enemies under the soles of my feet.

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

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the King commanded them, and they brought great stones and costly stones to make the foundation of the house, euen hewed stones.

George Lamsa Translation
And the king commanded and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones to complete the house.

Amplified Bible
The king gave orders, and they quarried great stones, valuable stones, to lay the foundation of the house (temple) with cut stones.

Hebrew Names Version
The king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Thou knowest how that David my father could not build a house for the name of the LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of my feet.

New Living Translation
At the king's command, they quarried large blocks of high-quality stone and shaped them to make the foundation of the Temple.

New Life Bible
Then as the king told them, they cut out large stones of much worth for the house of God to be built on.

New Revised Standard
At the king's command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.

English Revised Version
And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.

Berean Standard Bible
And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to found the house with hewn stones.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king commanded that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:

Lexham English Bible
When the king commanded, they quarried great stones and precious stones to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stones.

English Standard Version
At the king's command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.

New American Standard Bible
Then the king issued orders, and they quarried large stones, valuable stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.

New Century Version
King Solomon commanded them to cut large blocks of fine stone to be used for the foundation of the Temple.

Good News Translation
At King Solomon's command they cut fine large stones for the foundation of the Temple.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the kyng comaundide, that thei schulden take greete stonys, `and preciouse stonys, in to the foundement of the temple, and that thei schulden make tho square;

Young's Literal Translation
And the king commandeth, and they bring great stones, precious stone, to lay the foundation of the house, hewn stones;

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted, ¹¹ and Solomon provided Hiram with 100,000 bushels of wheat as food for his household and 110,000 gallons of oil from crushed olives. Solomon did this for Hiram year after year. ¹² The Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty. ¹³ Then King Solomon drafted forced laborers from all Israel; the labor force numbered 30,000 men. ¹⁴ He sent 10,000 to Lebanon each month in shifts; one month they were in Lebanon, two months they were at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor. ¹⁵ Solomon had 70,000 porters and 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, ¹⁶ not including his 3,300 deputies in charge of the work. They ruled over the people doing the work. ¹⁷ The king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones. ¹⁸ So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the temple's construction.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

costly stones: 1 Kings 6:7, 1 Kings 7:9, 1 Chronicles 22:2, Isaiah 28:16, 1 Corinthians 3:11, 1 Corinthians 3:12, 1 Peter 2:6, 1 Peter 2:7, Revelation 21:14-21

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 12:12 - masons Proverbs 24:27 - General Isaiah 54:11 - I will lay

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king commanded, and they brought great stones,.... Not in quality, but in quantity, large stones, fit to lay in the foundation; strong, and durable against all the injuries of time, as Josephus says i:

costly stones; not what are commonly called precious stones, as gems, pearls, c. but stones of value, as marble, porphyry, c.

[and] hewed stones not rough as they were taken out of the quarry, but hewed, and made smooth:

to lay the foundation of the house which, though out of sight, was to be laid with goodly stones for the magnificence of the building; so the church of Christ, its foundation is said to be laid even with sapphires and other precious stones, see Isaiah 54:11.

i Antiqu. l. 8. c. 3. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Some of these “great, hewed (no and) stones,” are probably still to be seen in the place where they were set by Solomon’s builders, at the southwestern angle of the wall of the Haram area in the modern Jerusalem. The largest found so far is 38 ft. 9 in. long, and weighs about 100 tons.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 5:17. Great stones — Stones of very large dimensions.

Costly stones — Stones that cost much labour and time to cut them out of the rock.

Hewed stones — Everywhere squared and polished.