1 Kings 6:7

Modern King James Version

And when it was being built, the house was built of stone made ready beforehand. And there was not heard in the house a hammer or an axe, or any iron tool, while it was being built.

Cross References

1 Peter 2:5

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

Proverbs 24:27

Prepare your work outside, and make it fit for yourself in the field; and afterwards build your house.

Exodus 20:25

And if you will make Me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stone. For if you lift up your tool upon it, you have defiled it.

Colossians 1:12

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

2 Corinthians 5:5

And He who has worked in us for this same thing is God, who also is giving to us the earnest of the Spirit.

Romans 9:23

and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy which He had before prepared to glory;

Acts 9:31

Then, indeed, the churches had rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and having been built up. And having gone on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were increased.

Isaiah 42:2

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

James 1:20

For the wrath of man does not work out the righteousness of God.

1 Kings 6:6

The lowest story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made narrowed ledges for the house all around, so as not to lay hold of the walls of the house.

1 Kings 6:8

The door for the middle story was in the right side of the house. And they went up with winding stairs into the middle story, and out of the middle into the third.