18 So Solʹo·mon’s builders and Hiʹram’s builders and the Geʹbal·ites+ did the cutting, and they kept preparing the timbers and the stones to build the house.

9 Even old men of Geʹbal+ and her skilled ones happened to be in you as caulkers for your seams.*+ All the ships of the sea and their mariners themselves proved to be in you, in order to exchange articles of merchandise.