Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Kings 5:17-18

"And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone. And Solomon`s builders and Hiram`s builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house." — 1 Kings 5:17-18 (ASV)

And they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers:

I am glad they are mentioned here, for there are still some brothers and sisters who are not hewers, but they are stonesquarers.

Perhaps they do not see many conversions through their efforts, but they do a great deal of the work of instructing the converts. They polish what other people have excavated, they are stonesquarers; and just as the temple at Jerusalem needed the work of the stonesquarers, so does God's great spiritual temple need those who square as well as those who hew the stones that are to be built into it.