1 Chronicles 22:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² David gave orders to gather together the aliens who were residing in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² David commanded to gather together the strangers who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to hew out stones to build the house of God.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And David commanded to gather together the sojourners that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

Common English Bible

² David gave orders to gather the immigrants living in the land of Israel, and he appointed masons who would cut stones for building God’s temple.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And he instructed them to gather all the new converts from the land of Israel. And from these he appointed stoneworkers, to hew stones and to polish them, so that he might build the house of God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And he commanded to gather together all the proselytes of the land of Israel, and out of them he appointed stonecutters to hew stones and polish them, to build the house of God.

1 Chronicles 22:2 Cross References

2 Samuel 5:11

King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar trees and carpenters and masons who built David a house.

1 Kings 6:7

The house was built with stone finished at the quarry so that neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron was heard in the temple while it was being built.

2 Kings 12:12

to the masons and the stonecutters, as well as to buy timber and quarried stone for making repairs on the house of the Lord, as well as for any outlay for repairs of the house.

2 Kings 22:6

that is, to the carpenters, to the builders, to the masons; and let them use it to buy timber and quarried stone to repair the house.

1 Chronicles 14:1

King Hiram of Tyre sent messengers to David, along with cedar logs and masons and carpenters to build a house for him.

1 Chronicles 29:1

King David said to the whole assembly, “My son Solomon, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the temple will not be for mortals but for the Lord God.

2 Chronicles 2:16

We will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you as rafts by sea to Joppa; you will take it up to Jerusalem.”

2 Chronicles 2:17

Then Solomon took a census of all the aliens who were residing in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had taken, and there were found to be one hundred fifty-three thousand six hundred.

Ezra 3:7

So they gave money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to the Sidonians and the Tyrians to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from King Cyrus of Persia.

Ephesians 2:12

remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.