| Geneva Study Bible And Solomon's builders and Hiram's {f} builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house. (f) The Hebrew word is Giblim, which some say were excellent masons. Wesley's Notes 5:18 Stone - squarers - Heb. the Giblites, the inhabitants of Gebel, a place near Zidon, famous for artificers and architects, Josh 13:5. These are here mentioned apart, distinct from the rest of Hiram's builders, as the most eminent of them. King James Translators' Notes stonesquares: or, Giblites Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 18. and the stone squarers-The Margin, which renders it "the Giblites" (Jos 13:5), has long been considered a preferable translation. This marginal translation also must yield to another which has lately been proposed, by a slight change in the Hebrew text, and which would be rendered thus: "Solomon's builders, and Hiram's builders, did hew them and bevel them" [Thenius]. These great bevelled or grooved stones, measuring some twenty, others thirty feet in length, and from five to six feet in breadth, are still seen in the substructures about the ancient site of the temple; and, in the judgment of the most competent observers, were those originally employed "to lay the foundation of the house." Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 5:10-18 The temple was chiefly built by the riches and labour of Gentiles, which typified their being called into the church. Solomon commanded, and they brought costly stones for the foundation. Christ, who is laid for a Foundation, is a chosen and precious Stone. We should lay our foundation firm, and bestow most pains on that part of our religion which lies out of the sight of men. And happy those who, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, for a habitation of God through the Spirit. Who among us will build in the house of the Lord? | 
