1 Kings 5:17

New English Translation

By royal order they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone.

Cross References

2 Samuel 22:39

I wipe them out and beat them to death; they cannot get up; they fall at my feet.

2 Samuel 7:5

“Go, tell my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord says: Do you really intend to build a house for me to live in?

1 Kings 6:7

As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.

1 Kings 7:9

All of these were built with the best stones, chiseled to the right size and cut with a saw on all sides, from the foundation to the edge of the roof and from the outside to the great courtyard.

1 Chronicles 22:2

David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God’s temple.

1 Chronicles 22:8

But the Lord said to me: ‘You have spilled a great deal of blood and fought many battles. You must not build a temple to honor me, for you have spilled a great deal of blood on the ground before me.

Isaiah 28:16

Therefore, this is what the sovereign master, the Lord, says: “Look, I am laying a stone in Zion, an approved stone, set in place as a precious cornerstone for the foundation. The one who maintains his faith will not panic.