What is the meaning of "va'Yifselu"?
Metzudas Tziyon: They smoothed.
Where did they smooth [the rocks]?
Rashi: On the mountains. (Refer to 5:32:5:2.)
Who are "Bonei Shlomo u'Vonei Chirom"?
Radak citing Targum Yonasan: They are the primary craftsmen, that others are under them.
Who are the Gevilim?
Rashi: It is a nation called Geval. They are experts to quarry rocks and build. It says about Tzor "Ziknei Geval va'Chachameha Hayu Vach Machazikei Bidkech" (Yechezkel 27:9).
Targum Yonasan: Arguvlaya. Radak - he similarly translated "vela'Godrim" (Melachim II, 12:13), i.e. the builders of the wall.
What is the meaning of "va'Yachinu"?
Rashi: They designated.
Malbim: The wood and rocks were smoothed and prepared before they came to the place where they build, so they needed only to put them in place. "Chisels, all iron tools and a saw were not heard in the Bayis when it was being built" (6:7).
