The Meaning of 1 Kings 5:18 Explained

1 Kings 5:18

KJV: And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

YLT: and the builders of Solomon, and the builders of Hiram, and the Giblites hew, and prepare the wood and the stones to build the house.

Darby: And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Giblites hewed them, and prepared timber and stones to build the house.

ASV: And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of 1 Kings 5:18?

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WORDS: What do the individual words in 1 Kings 5:18 mean?

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KJV Reverse Interlinear

And Solomon's  builders  and Hiram's  builders  did hew  [them], and the stonesquarers:  so they prepared  timber  and stones  to build  the house. 

What does 1 Kings 5:18 Mean?

Context Summary

1 Kings 5:7-18 - Preparations For The Great Task
It was good for Hiram and his Tyrians to be associated with the servants of Solomon. Together they hewed immense blocks of stone, some of which were thirty feet in length and six feet in breadth, and which still form foundations on the ancient Temple site. Together they hewed down and fashioned the cedar and fir trees on the slopes of Lebanon. May we not learn from this partnership that Gentiles are to be associated with Jews in that one holy Temple, which through the ages is growing into a habitation of God by His Spirit? Ephesians 2:21-22. In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, circumcision nor uncircumcision.
The treaty between the two kingdoms was eminently wise, because they differed so widely-the one being pastoral, the other commercial. It was wise for Peter and John to enter into close friendship, and together ascend the steps to the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, Acts 3:1-3. Be content to be a hewer on the mountains, shaping rough blocks of granite, but, do something toward building the Temple of God, which arises slowly amid the wreck of all human structures.
1 Kings 5:1-18 - Breaking Three Commandments
From a worldly point of view Naboth might have done a good stroke of business by selling his estate to. Ahab. A royal price and assured favor might have been his-but he had a conscience! Above the persuasive tones of the monarch's offer sounded the voice of God: "The land shall not be sold for ever, for the land is mine." See Leviticus 25:23; Numbers 36:7; Ezekiel 46:18.
Ahab knew perfectly well that Jezebel could not give him the property of another except by foul means, but he took pains not to inquire. Though the direct orders for Naboth's death did not come from him, yet, by his silence, he was an accomplice and an accessory; and divine justice penetrates all such specious excuses. God holds us responsible for wrongs which we do not arrest, though we have the power. The crime was blacker because of the pretext of religion, as suggested by a fast. See also 2 Kings 9:26. The blood of murdered innocence cries to God, and his requital, though delayed, is inevitable. See Revelation 6:9-10. [source]

Chapter Summary: 1 Kings 5

1  Hiram, sending to congratulate Solomon, is desired to furnish him with timber
7  Hiram, blessing God for Solomon, furnishes him with trees
13  The number of Solomon's workmen and laborers

What do the individual words in 1 Kings 5:18 mean?

So quarried [them] builders of Solomon and builders of Hiram and the Gebalites and they prepared timber and stones to build the temple -
וַֽיִּפְסְל֞וּ בֹּנֵ֧י שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה וּבֹנֵ֥י חִיר֖וֹם וְהַגִּבְלִ֑ים וַיָּכִ֛ינוּ הָעֵצִ֥ים וְהָאֲבָנִ֖ים לִבְנ֥וֹת הַבָּֽיִת פ

וַֽיִּפְסְל֞וּ  So  quarried  [them] 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: פָּסַל  
Sense: to cut, hew, hew into shape.
בֹּנֵ֧י  builders 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural construct
Root: בָּנָה  
Sense: to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue.
שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה  of  Solomon 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: שְׁלֹמֹה  
Sense: son of David by Bathsheba and 3rd king of Israel; author of Proverbs and Song of Songs.
וּבֹנֵ֥י  and  builders 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural construct
Root: בָּנָה  
Sense: to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue.
חִיר֖וֹם  of  Hiram 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: חִירֹום 
Sense: the king of Tyre who sent workmen and materials to Jerusalem to build both the palace for David and the temple for Solomon.
וְהַגִּבְלִ֑ים  and  the  Gebalites 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Article, Proper Noun, masculine plural
Root: גִּבְלִי  
Sense: inhabitants of Gebal.
וַיָּכִ֛ינוּ  and  they  prepared 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Hifil, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine plural
Root: כּוּן 
Sense: to be firm, be stable, be established.
הָעֵצִ֥ים  timber 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine plural
Root: עֵץ  
Sense: tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows.
וְהָאֲבָנִ֖ים  and  stones 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Article, Noun, feminine plural
Root: אֶבֶן  
Sense: stone (large or small).
לִבְנ֥וֹת  to  build 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct
Root: בָּנָה  
Sense: to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue.
הַבָּֽיִת  the  temple 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: בַּיִת 
Sense: house.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation

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