1 Chronicles 22:2
So David gave orders to gather the foreigners in the land of Israel, from whom he appointed stonecutters to prepare finished stones for building the house of God.
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the strangers

1 Kings 9:20, 21
As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)-- . . .

2 Chronicles 2:17
Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel, following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153, 600 in all.

2 Chronicles 8:7, 8
As for all the people who remained of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)-- . . .

Isaiah 61:5, 6
Strangers will stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers. . . .

Ephesians 2:12, 19-22
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. . . .

masons

1 Samuel 14:1
One day Jonathan son of Saul said to the young man bearing his armor, "Come, let us cross over to the Philistine outpost on the other side." But Jonathan did not tell his father.

2 Samuel 5:11
King Hiram of Tyre sent envoys to David, along with cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.

1 Kings 5:17, 18
And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones. . . .

1 Kings 6:7
The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer, chisel, or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

1 Kings 7:9-12
All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, from the outside to the great courtyard. . . .

2 Kings 12:11
Then they would put the counted money into the hands of those who supervised the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn would pay those doing the work--the carpenters, builders,

2 Kings 22:6
to the carpenters, builders, and masons--to buy timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.

Ezra 3:7
They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by King Cyrus of Persia.

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
So David gave orders to gather the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to hew out stones to build the house of God.

King James Bible
And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So David gave orders to gather the foreigners that were in the land of Israel, and he appointed stonecutters to cut finished stones for building God's house.

International Standard Version
David subsequently issued orders to conscript the resident aliens who lived in the land of Israel and appointed stonecutters to prepare stones for building a temple for God.

NET Bible
David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God's temple.
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