1 Kings 5:17

Modern English Version

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

2 Samuel 22:39

I consumed them and shattered them so that they did not rise; they fell under my feet.

2 Samuel 7:5

Go and say to My servant David: Thus says the Lord: Do you intend to build a house for Me in which I will dwell?

1 Kings 6:7

The house was built of 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.

1 Kings 7:9

All these were built with costly stones, cut to size and sawed with saws on the inside and outside, from the foundation up to the coping, throughout the outside toward the great court.

1 Chronicles 22:2

So David gave instructions to gather together those sojourning in the land of Israel, and he appointed stonemasons to cut hewn stones for building the house of God.

1 Chronicles 22:8

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

Isaiah 28:16

Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Behold, I lay in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, firmly placed; he who believes shall not act hastily.