1 Kings 5:17 - John Wesley's Notes

1 Kings 5:17

15 ^aSolomon had seventy thousand who carried burdens, and eighty thousand who quarried stone in the mountains,

16 besides three thousand¹ three hundred from the ^achiefs of Solomon’s deputies, who supervised the people who labored in the work.

17 And the king commanded them to quarry large stones, costly stones, and ^ahewn stones, to lay the foundation of the¹ temple.

18 So Solomon’s builders, Hiram’s builders, and the Gebalites quarried them; and they prepared timber and stones to build the¹ temple.

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1 Kings 5:17

Great and costly - Marble and porphyry, or other stones of great size and value. The foundation - Where they could not afterward be seen: and therefore that this was done, is mentioned only as a point of magnificence, except it was intended for a type, or mystical signification of the preciousness of Christ, who is the foundation of the true temple, the church of God.

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