1 Raja-raja 5:18

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Maka tukang-tukang Salomo dan tukang-tukang Hiram serta orang-orang Gebal memahat dan menyediakan kayu dan batu untuk mendirikan rumah itu.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Maka tukang-tukang Salomo dan tukang-tukang Hiram serta orang-orang Gebal memahat dan menyediakan kayu dan batu untuk mendirikan rumah itu.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka segala tukang raja Sulaiman dan segala tukang raja Hiram dan segala orang Jibelipun memahatkan dia, dan ditarakannya segala kayu dan batu akan perusahaan rumah itu.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Aud so Hiram gaue Solomon Cedar trees and firre trees according to all his desyre. ¹¹ And Solomon gaue Hiram twentie thousand quarters of wheate for foode to his housholde, and twentie buts of pure oyle: Thus much gaue Solomon to Hiram yere by yere. ¹² And the Lorde gaue Solomon wisedome as he promysed him: And there was peace betweene Hiram and Solomon, & they two were consedered together. ¹³ And king Solomon raysed a summe out of Israel, and the summe was thirtie thousand men: ¹⁴ Whom he sent to Libanon, ten thousand a moneth by course: so that when they had ben one moneth in Libanon, they abode two monethes at home: And Adoniram was ouer the summe. ¹⁵ And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and foure score thousand masons in the mountaines: ¹⁶ Besides the lordes whom Solomon appoynted to ouersee the worke, euen three thousand & three hundred, which ruled the people [& them] that wrought in the worke. ¹⁷ And the king commaunded them to bring great stones, costly stones, & hewed stones, for the foundatio of the house. ¹⁸ And Solomons masons, and the masons of Hiram did hewe them, and the stone squarers: And so they prepared both tymber and stones, for the building of the house.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the stonesquarers: or, Giblites, Joshua 13:5, Psalms 83:7, Ezekiel 27:9

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 6:7 - built of stone 2 Kings 12:12 - masons 2 Kings 22:6 - builders 1 Chronicles 14:1 - and timber 1 Chronicles 22:2 - masons 2 Chronicles 8:16 - General Proverbs 24:27 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 4:17
Cain also knewe his wyfe, whiche conceaued and bare Henoch, and buyldyng a citie, he called the name of the same citie after the name of his sonne Henoch.

Genesis 5:14
And all the dayes of Kenan were nine hundreth and ten yeres, and he dyed.

Genesis 5:15
Mahalaleel liued sixtie and fiue yeres, and begate Iered.

1 Chronicles 1:3
Henoh, Methusalah, Lamech.

Luke 3:37
Whiche was the sonne of Mathusala, whiche was the sonne of Enoch, which was the sonne of Iared, whiche was the sonne of Maleleel, whiche was the sonne of Cainan:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew [them],.... The stones; for it seems Solomon had not only hewers of wood, but of stone, from Hiram:

and the stonesquarers; or rather the Giblites, the men of Gebal, which were under the jurisdiction of Tyre, and were skilful in this sort of work, as some of them were in others, see Ezekiel 27:9;

so they prepared timber and stones to build the house; both Solomon's and Hiram's builders, and the large number of workmen, both Israelites and strangers; which latter were an emblem of the Gentiles concerned in the building of the spiritual temple, the church of Christ, Zechariah 6:15; and whereas the number of strangers that wrought for the building was far greater than that of the Israelites, it may denote the greater number of Gentiles in the Gospel church state mentioned besides these: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year: so long as the building lasted, and the workmen were employed; but Abarbinel thinks that he gave it to him as long as he lived, out of his great munificence and liberality.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The stone-squarers - The Gebalites (see the margin), the inhabitants of Gebal, a Phoenician city between Beyrout and Tripolis, which the Greeks called Byblus, and which is now known as Jebeil.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Kings 5:18. And the stone-squarers — Instead of stone-squarers the margin very properly reads Giblites, הגבלים haggiblim; and refers to Ezekiel 27:9, where we find the inhabitants of Gebal celebrated for their knowledge in ship-building. Some suppose that these Giblites were the inhabitants of Biblos, at the foot of Mount Libanus, northward of Sidon, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea; famous for its wines; and now called Gaeta. Both Ptolemy and Stephanus Byzantinus speak of a town called Gebala, to the east of Tyre: but this was different from Gebal, or Biblos. It seems more natural to understand this of a people than of stone-squarers, though most of the versions have adopted this idea which we follow in the text.