1 Kings 5:17
1 Kings 5:13-18 The Message (MSG)
King Solomon raised a workforce of thirty thousand men from all over Israel. He sent them in shifts of ten thousand each month to the Lebanon forest; they would work a month in Lebanon and then be at home two months. Adoniram was in charge of the work crew. Solomon also had seventy thousand unskilled workers and another eighty thousand stonecutters up in the hills—plus thirty-three hundred foremen managing the project and supervising the work crews. Following the king’s orders, they quarried huge blocks of the best stone—dressed stone for the foundation of The Temple. Solomon and Hiram’s construction workers, assisted by the men of Gebal, cut and prepared the timber and stone for building The Temple.
1 Kings 5:17 King James Version (KJV)
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
1 Kings 5:17 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Then the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.
1 Kings 5:17 New Century Version (NCV)
King Solomon commanded them to cut large blocks of fine stone to be used for the foundation of the Temple.
1 Kings 5:17 American Standard Version (ASV)
And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.
1 Kings 5:17 New International Version (NIV)
At the king’s command they removed from the quarry large blocks of high-grade stone to provide a foundation of dressed stone for the temple.
1 Kings 5:17 New King James Version (NKJV)
And the king commanded them to quarry large stones, costly stones, and hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the temple.
1 Kings 5:17 Amplified Bible (AMP)
The king gave orders, and they quarried great stones, valuable stones, to lay the foundation of the house (temple) with cut stones.