Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
(builder’s art). Descendants of Shem were city builders (Gen. 4:17; 10:11-12). Hebrew ideas of architecture ripened in Egypt, and by contact with Tyre. David enlarged Jerusalem. Solomon built a palace and temple (2 Sam. 5:11; 1 Kings 7). The returned captives were great builders (Ezra 3:8-10; Neh. 3; 6:15).