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1 Kings 5:17

brought great stones—The stone of Lebanon is "hard, calcareous, whitish and sonorous, like free stone" [SHAW]. The same white and beautiful stone can be obtained in every part of Syria and Palestine.

hewed stones—or neatly polished, as the Hebrew word signifies (Exodus 20:25). Both Jewish and Tyrian builders were employed in hewing these great stones.

Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Kings 5:17:

1 Kings 5:13
Isaiah 9:10
Isaiah 28:16
Ephesians 2:20

 

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