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1 Kings 5:16-18
English Standard Version
1 Kings 5:16-18
English Standard Version
16 besides Solomon's 3,300 (A)chief officers who were over the work, (B)who had charge of the people who carried on the work. 17 At the king's command (C)they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones. 18 So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and (D)the men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.
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