1 Kings 7:9

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 5:17

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

1 Kings 7:8

His own house where he lived, in the other court back of the hall, was similar in style. Solomon also made a house like this for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had taken as a wife.