1 Kings 5:17

English Standard Version 2016

At the king’s command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 22:2

David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.

1 Kings 6:7

When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.

Isaiah 28:16

therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘Whoever believes will not be in haste.’

1 Kings 7:9

All these were made of costly stones, cut according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, even from the foundation to the coping, and from the outside to the great court.

2 Samuel 7:5

“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: Would you build me a house to dwell in?

2 Samuel 22:39

I consumed them; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise; they fell under my feet.

1 Chronicles 22:8

But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars. You shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me on the earth.