Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Kings 5:17

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Kings 5:17 - 5:17

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Kings 5:17 - 5:17

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5:1 - 5:1
5:6 - 5:6
5:7 - 5:7
5:8 - 5:8
5:10 - 5:10
5:11 - 5:11
5:13 - 5:13
5:17 - 5:17
5:18 - 5:18

brought great stones - The stone of Lebanon is “hard, calcareous, whitish and sonorous, like free stone” [Shaw]. The same white and beautiful stone can be obtained in every part of Syria and Palestine.

hewed stones - or neatly polished, as the Hebrew word signifies (Exo 20:25). Both Jewish and Tyrian builders were employed in hewing these great stones.