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1 Kings 5:17

17 At the king’s command wthey quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.

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1 Kings 5:17 — The New International Version (NIV)

17 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 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

17 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 Living Translation (NLT)

17 At the king’s command, they quarried large blocks of high-quality stone and shaped them to make the foundation of the Temple.

1 Kings 5:17 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

17 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 — New Century Version (NCV)

17 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)

17 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 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, hewn stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

1 Kings 5:17 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

17 The king commanded them to quarry large, expensive blocks of stone in order to provide a foundation of cut stone for the temple.

1 Kings 5:17 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

17 The king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.

1 Kings 5:17 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

17 At the king’s command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.

1 Kings 5:17 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

17 When the king commanded, they quarried great stones and precious stones to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stones.

1 Kings 5:17 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

17 The people did what the king commanded. They removed large blocks of fine stone from a rock pit. They used them to provide a foundation for the temple.

1 Kings 5:17 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

17 Then the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.


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