1 Kings 6:7

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

1 Peter 2:5

you also, as living stones, are being built up into a spiritual house as a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Proverbs 24:27

Set in order your outside work, make it ready for yourself in the field, and afterwards build your house.

Exodus 20:25

If you will make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you use your tool on it, you will have polluted it.

Colossians 1:12

giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled us to be partakers in the inheritance of the saints in light.

2 Corinthians 5:5

Now He who has created us for this very thing is God, who also has given to us the guarantee of the Spirit.

Romans 9:23

in order to make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He previously prepared for glory,

Acts 9:31

Then the churches throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and were built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

Isaiah 42:2

He shall not cry out, nor lift up his voice, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

James 1:20

for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.

1 Kings 6:6

The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house, he made offsets on the wall so that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

1 Kings 6:8

The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house, and it had winding stairs into the middle chamber and out of the middle into the third.