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1 Kings 5:16-18
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1 Kings 5:16-18
New English Translation
16 besides 3,300 officials[a] who supervised the workers.[b] 17 By royal order[c] they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone. 18 Solomon’s and Hiram’s construction workers,[d] along with men from Byblos,[e] did the chiseling and prepared the wood and stones for the building of the temple.[f]
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- 1 Kings 5:16 tc Some Greek mss of the OT read “3,600”; cf. 2 Chr 2:2, 18 and NLT.
- 1 Kings 5:16 tn Heb “besides thirty-three hundred from the officials of Solomon’s governors who were over the work, the ones ruling over the people, the ones doing the work.”
- 1 Kings 5:17 tn Heb “and the king commanded.”
- 1 Kings 5:18 tn Heb “builders.”
- 1 Kings 5:18 tn Heb “the Gebalites.” The reading is problematic and some emend to a verb form meaning, “set the borders.”
- 1 Kings 5:18 tc The LXX includes the words “for three years.”
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