1 Kings 5:17

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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; I thrust them through, so that they did not rise; they fell under my feet.

2 Samuel 7:5

“Go and tell my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord: Would you build me a house to dwell in?

1 Kings 6:7

When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry; so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the temple, while it was being built.

1 Kings 7:9

All these were made of costly stones, hewn according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, even from the foundation to the coping, and from the court of the house of the Lord to the great court.

1 Chronicles 22:2

David commanded to gather together the aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed 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 have waged great wars; you shall not build a house to my name, because you have shed so much blood before me upon the earth.

Isaiah 28:16

therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: ‘He who believes will not be in haste.’