I destroyed my enemies. I defeated them! They won’t get up again. Yes, my enemies fell under my feet.
1 Kings 5:17 - Easy To Read Version King Solomon commanded them to cut out big, expensive stones to be the foundation for the temple. These stones were carefully cut. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The king commanded, and they hewed and brought out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stone. American Standard Version (1901) And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone. Common English Bible At the king’s command, they quarried huge stones of the finest quality in order to lay the temple’s foundation with carefully cut stone. Catholic Public Domain Version And the king ordered them to bring great stones, precious stones, for the foundation of the temple, and to square them. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the king commanded, that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them. |
I destroyed my enemies. I defeated them! They won’t get up again. Yes, my enemies fell under my feet.
“Go and tell my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord says: You are not the person to build a house for me to live in.
The workers used large stones to build the walls. The workers cut the stones at the place where they got them out of the ground. So there was no noise of hammers, axes, or any other iron tools in the temple.
All of these buildings were made with expensive blocks of stone. These stones were cut to the right size with a saw. They were cut in the front and in the back. These expensive stones went from the foundation up to the top layer of the wall. Even the wall around the yard was made with expensive blocks of stone.
David gave an order for all foreigners living in Israel to be gathered together. David chose stonecutters {\cf2\super [232]} from that group of foreigners. Their job was to cut stones ready to be used for building God’s temple. {\cf2\super [233]}
But the Lord said to me, ‘David, you have fought many wars and you have killed many people. So you can’t build a temple for my name.
Because of those things, the Lord my Master says, “I will put a rock—a cornerstone—in the ground in Zion. {\cf2\super [259]} This will be a very precious stone. {\cf2\super [260]} Everything will be built on this very important rock. Any person that trusts \{in that rock\} will not be disappointed.