“"Furthermore the men of Biblos [i.e., the Giblites] prepared wood and stones to build the house." Biblos is a city in Phoenicia that Ezekiel mentions: "Your skilled men, Tyre, were your pilots. The elders of Biblos and its skilled men," for which [city] in Hebrew is written Gobel or Gebal, which means "defining" or "l…”
Bede, 8th c. — Of the Temple of Solomon 1.4.3
Original
18And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
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In context
16Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that wrought in the work.
17And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.