1 Kings 5:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁷ The king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ The king commanded, and they hewed and brought out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stone.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ At the king’s command, they quarried huge stones of the finest quality in order to lay the temple’s foundation with carefully cut stone.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And the king ordered them to bring great stones, precious stones, for the foundation of the temple, and to square them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And the king commanded, that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them.

1 Kings 5:17 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 22:39

I wipe them out and crush them, and they do not rise; they fall beneath my feet.

2 Samuel 7:5

‘Go to my servant David and say, “This is what the Lord says: Are you to build me a house to dwell in?

1 Kings 6:7

The temple’s construction used finished stones cut at the quarry so that no hammer, chisel, or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

1 Kings 7:9

All of these buildings were of costly stones, cut to size and sawn with saws on the inner and outer surfaces, from foundation to coping and from the outside to the great courtyard.

1 Chronicles 22:2

So David gave orders to gather the resident foreigners that were in the land of Israel,  and he appointed stonecutters to cut finished stones for building God’s house.

1 Chronicles 22:8

but the word of the Lord came to me: “You have shed much blood and waged great wars. You are not to build a house for my name because you have shed so much blood on the ground before me.

Isaiah 28:16

Therefore the Lord God said: ‘Look, I have laid a stone  in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will be unshakable.  ,