the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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1 Re 5:17
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Il re comand di estrarre pietre grosse, pietre di valore e pietre squadrate per fare le fondamenta del tempio.
E per comandamento del re, si addussero pietre grandi, pietre fine, per fondar la Casa, e pietre pulite.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
costly stones: 1 Kings 6:7, 1 Kings 7:9, 1 Chronicles 22:2, Isaiah 28:16, 1 Corinthians 3:11, 1 Corinthians 3:12, 1 Peter 2:6, 1 Peter 2:7, Revelation 21:14-21
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 12:12 - masons Proverbs 24:27 - General Isaiah 54:11 - I will lay
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones,.... Not in quality, but in quantity, large stones, fit to lay in the foundation; strong, and durable against all the injuries of time, as Josephus says i:
costly stones; not what are commonly called precious stones, as gems, pearls, c. but stones of value, as marble, porphyry, c.
[and] hewed stones not rough as they were taken out of the quarry, but hewed, and made smooth:
to lay the foundation of the house which, though out of sight, was to be laid with goodly stones for the magnificence of the building; so the church of Christ, its foundation is said to be laid even with sapphires and other precious stones, see Isaiah 54:11.
i Antiqu. l. 8. c. 3. sect. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Some of these “great, hewed (no and) stones,” are probably still to be seen in the place where they were set by Solomon’s builders, at the southwestern angle of the wall of the Haram area in the modern Jerusalem. The largest found so far is 38 ft. 9 in. long, and weighs about 100 tons.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Kings 5:17. Great stones — Stones of very large dimensions.
Costly stones — Stones that cost much labour and time to cut them out of the rock.
Hewed stones — Everywhere squared and polished.
