1 Kings 5:17 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

¹⁷ At the king's command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house 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.

1 Kings 5:17 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 22:39

I consumed them; I struck them down, 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: Are you the one to build me a house to live in?

1 Kings 6:7

The house was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor ax 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, cut according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, from the foundation to the coping, and from outside to the great court.

1 Chronicles 22:2

David gave orders to gather together the aliens who were residing 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 in my sight on the earth.

Isaiah 28:16

therefore thus says the Lord God, See, I am laying in Zion a foundation stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation: “One who trusts will not panic.”