Stone does not build itself, and the Bible keeps a place for the people who shape it. Kings send money to masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, in the days of Joash and again of Josiah. Hiram of Tyre sends masons along with cedar timber to David, and returning exiles pay masons to rebuild the temple. These are mostly unnamed workers, listed beside the timber and the silver. Their craft is what turns a plan for a holy place into walls that stand. Start with 2 Kings 12:12 to see the repair work.
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And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and timber of cedars, with masons and carpenters, to build him an house.
They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
An artificer in stone. The Tyrians seem to have been specially skilled in architecture (1 Kings 5:17, 18; 2 Sam. 5:11). This art the Hebrews no doubt learned in Egypt (Ex. 1:11, 14), where ruins of temples and palaces fill the traveller with wonder at the present day.