And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the stone squarers hewed them. So they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre.

The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy caulkers; all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to trade for thy merchandise.

Turn you and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills and in the vale, and in the South and by the seaside, to the land of the Canaanites and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the River Euphrates.

I pray Thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.'

And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side of the Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the Valley of Lebanon even unto the Mount Halak that goeth up to Seir, which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions,

even from Mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baalgad in the Valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. And all their kings he took, and smote them and slew them.

from Mount Hor ye shall designate your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the limits of the border shall be to Zedad;

Is not Calno as Carchemish? Is not Hamath as Arpad? Is not Samaria as Damascus?

Pass ye unto Calneh, and see; and from thence go ye to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are they better than these kingdoms? Or their border greater than your border?