35 Bible Verses about Architecture

The work they do as priests is only a copy and a shadow of what is in heaven. It is the same as it was with Moses. When he was about to build the sacred tent, God told him: Be sure to make everything according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.

Have them make a holy place (sanctuary) for me, and I will live among them. Make the tent and all its furnishings exactly like the plans I show you.

Construct the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet material. Make them with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman. Each curtain will be forty-two feet long and six feet wide. All will be the same size. Five of the curtains must be sewn together. The other five must also be sewn together.read more.
Make fifty violet loops along the edge of the end curtain in each set, Place the loops opposite each other. Make fifty gold fasteners. Use them to link the two sets of curtains together so that the tent is a single unit. Make eleven curtains of goats' hair to form an outer tent over the inner tent. Each of the eleven curtains will be forty-five feet long and six feet wide. Sew five of the curtains together into one set. Sew the remaining six into another set. Fold the sixth curtains in half to hang in front of the tent. Fasten fifty loops along the edge of the end curtain in each set. Make fifty bronze fasteners. Put the fasteners through the loops to link the inner tent together as a single unit. Hang the remaining curtain over the back of the inner tent. Eighteen inches will be left over on each side because of the length of the outer tent's curtains. That should hang over each side in order to cover the inner tent. Make a cover of rams' skins that have been dyed red for the outer tent. Place a cover made of fine leather over that. A framework out of acacia wood should be built for the inner tent. Each frame is to be fifteen feet long and twenty-seven inches wide. It should have two identical pegs. Make all the frames for the inner tent the same way. Make twenty frames for the south side of the inner tent. Provide forty silver sockets at the bottom of the twenty frames, two sockets at the bottom of each frame for the two pegs. Prepare twenty frames for the north side of the inner tent. Also forty silver sockets, two at the bottom of each frame. Prepare six frames for the far end, the west side. There should be two frames for each of the corners at the far end of the inner tent. Fasten these together at the bottom and tightly at the top by a single ring. Both corner frames will be made this way. There will be eight frames with sixteen silver sockets, two at the bottom of each frame. Prepare crossbars out of acacia wood: five for the frames on one side of the inner tent. Also prepare five for those on the other side, and five for the frames on the far end of the inner tent, the west side. The middle crossbar will run from one end to the other. It should be halfway up the frames. Cover the frames with gold. Make gold rings to hold the crossbars. Cover the crossbars with gold. Erect the inner tent according to the plans you were shown on the mountain. Build a canopy of violet, purple, and bright red yarn. Creatively work an angel design of cherubim into fine linen yarn. Hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold. Their hooks should also be of gold, on four sockets of silver. Hang up the veil under the clasps. Bring in the Ark of the Covenant there within the veil. The veil shall serve for you as a partition between the holy place and the holy of holies. Place the mercy seat on the Ark of the Covenant in the holy of holies. Set the table outside the veil. Place the lamp stand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south. Place the table on the north side. Make a screen for the doorway of the tent of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver. Make five pillars of acacia for the screen and overlay them with gold. Their hooks should also be of gold. Cast five sockets of bronze for them.

Then David gave his son Solomon the plans for the entrance hall and the Temple, the storerooms, upper rooms, inner rooms, and the room for the throne of mercy. He gave him plans for the courtyards of Jehovah's Temple and for all the rooms around it. These rooms served as treasuries for God's Temple and the gifts dedicated to God.

Solomon began work on the Temple. It was four hundred and eighty years after the people of Israel left Egypt, during the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the second month, the month of Ziv. The Temple Solomon built was ninety feet long, thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet high inside. The entrance room was fifteen feet deep and thirty feet wide. It was as wide as the sanctuary.read more.
He made windows for the Temple. Their openings were narrower on the outside than on the inside. A third-story annex, seven and one half feet high, was built against the outside walls. It was on the sides and the back of the Temple. Each room in the lowest story was seven and one half feet wide. The middle story was nine feet wide. The top story was ten and one half feet wide. The Temple wall on each floor was thinner than on the floor below, so that the rooms could rest on the wall without having their beams built into it. The stones with which the Temple was built were prepared at the quarry. That way there was no noise made by hammers, axes, or any other iron tools as the Temple was built. The entrance to the lowest story of the annex was on the south side of the Temple. It had stairs leading up to the second and third stories. King Solomon finished building the Temple. He put in a ceiling made of beams and boards of cedar. The three-story annex, each story seven and one half feet high, was built against the outside walls of the Temple. Cedar beams were used to join it to them.

David said: All this was written for me by Jehovah's hand. He made all the details of the plan clear to me.

Solomon began to build Jehovah's Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. That is where Jehovah appeared to his father David. David had prepared the site on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. He began to build on the second day in the second month of the fourth year of his reign. It was in the place David had povided. This is how Solomon laid the foundation to build God's Temple. It was ninety feet long and thirty feet wide. (They used the old standard measurement.)read more.
The entrance hall in front of the main room was thirty feet wide (the same as the width of the temple) and thirty feet high. He covered its inside walls with pure gold. He paneled the larger building with cypress. Then he overlaid it with fine gold. It was decorated with designs in the form of palm trees and chains. He covered the building with gems to beautify it and used gold from Parvaim. He also overlaid the building, the rafters, the threshold, the walls, and the doors with gold. He carved cherubim (angels) on the walls. He made the most holy place. It was as long as the Temple was wide, thirty feet long. It was also thirty feet wide. He overlaid it with forty-five thousand pounds of fine gold. The gold nails weighed twenty ounces. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold. In the most holy place he made two sculptured cherubim (angels) and covered them with gold. The combined length of the cherubim wings was thirty feet. A wing of one of the cherub was seven and one half feet long and touched the wall of the building. Its other wing was seven and one half feet long and touched one wing of the other cherub. The wing of the other one of the cherub (angels) was seven and one half feet long and touched the other wall of the building. Its other wing was seven and one half feet long and touched the wing of the first cherub. So the cherubs' combined wingspan was thirty feet. They stood on their feet facing the main hall. Solomon made the canopy of violet, purple, and dark red cloth and of linen and decorated it with cherubim. He made two pillars for the front of the Temple. They were fifty-three feet long, and the crown on each pillar was seven and one half feet high. He made chains for the inner room and also put them on the crowns. He made one hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains. He set up the pillars in front of the Temple, one on the right and the other on the left. He named the one on the right Jachin (He Establishes) and the one on the left Boaz (In Him Is Strength).

King Solomon had a copper altar built. It was thirty feet square and fifteen feet high. He also made a round tank (molten sea) of copper. It was seven and one half feet deep, fifteen feet in diameter, and forty-five feet in circumference. All around the outer edge of the rim of the tank were two rows of decorations, one above the other. The decorations were in the shape of bulls. They had been cast all in one piece with the rest of the tank.read more.
The tank rested on the backs of twelve copper bulls that faced outward. Three faced in each direction, north, west, south and east. The sides of the tank were three inches thick. Its rim was like the rim of a cup, curving outward like the petals of a flower. The tank held about fifteen thousand gallons. They also made ten basins, five to be placed on the south side of the Temple and five on the north side. They were to be used to rinse the parts of the animals that were burned as sacrifices. The water in the large tank was for the priests to use for washing. They made ten gold lamp stands according to the usual pattern, and ten tables, and placed them in the main room of the Temple. He made ten tables and put them in the temple. Five were on the south side and five on the north side. And he made one hundred gold bowls. He also made the priests' courtyard and the large courtyard and its doors. He covered the doors with copper. He set the pool on the south side in the southeast corner. Huram also made the pots, shovels, and bowls. So Huram finished the work for King Solomon in God's Temple: Two pillars, bowl-shaped crowns on top of the two pillars, and two sets of filigree to cover the two bowl-shaped crowns on top of the pillars, four hundred pomegranates for the two sets of filigree (two rows of pomegranates for each filigree to cover the two bowl-shaped crowns on the pillars), ten stands and ten basins on the stands, one pool and the twelve bulls under it, pots, shovels, and three-pronged forks. Huram (Hiram-abiv) made all of them out of polished copper for Jehovah's Temple at King Solomon's request. The king cast them in foundries in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zeredah. Solomon made so many of these products that no one tried to determine how much the copper weighed. Solomon made all the furnishings for God's Temple: the gold altar, the gold tables on which the bread of the presence was placed, lamp stands and lamps of pure gold (to burn as directed in front of the inner room), flowers, lamps, pure gold tongs, snuffers, basins, dishes, incense burners of pure gold, the gold entrance to the temple, the gold doors of the most holy place, and the gold doors of the Temple.

As Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the Law of Moses, an altar of whole stones that have not been cut by any iron tool. They offered offerings to Jehovah, and sacrificed peace offerings.

If you make an altar of stone for me, do not build it out of cut stones. This is because when you use a chisel on stones, you make them unfit for my use.

Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglathpileser king of Assyria. There he saw the altar at Damascus. King Ahaz sent a drawing of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure to Urijah the priest. Urijah made an altar from the drawing King Ahaz sent from Damascus. He had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus.

When you build a new house make a parapet (wall) for your roof. This way you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.

It was the tenth day of the month in the beginning of the twenty-fifth year of our captivity and fourteen years after Jerusalem was captured. At that time Jehovah's power came over me, and he brought me to Jerusalem. In visions, God brought me to Israel and set me down on a very high mountain. On the south side of the mountain were buildings that looked like those in a city. He brought me closer. I saw a man who looked like he was covered with bronze. The man was holding a linen tape measure and a measuring stick, and he stood in a gateway.read more.
He said to me: Son of man, look with your eyes, and listen with your ears. Pay close attention to everything I am going to show you. The reason you were brought here is to see these things. Tell the nation of Israel about everything that you see. I saw a wall that surrounded the Temple. The man had a measuring stick that was ten and one half feet long. He measured the wall. It was ten and one half feet thick and ten and one half feet high. The man went to the gateway that faced east. He went up its steps and measured the entrance to the gateway. It was ten and one half feet wide. There were also guardrooms. Each guardroom was ten and one half feet long and ten and one half feet wide. The space between the guardrooms was nine feet thick. And the entrance to the gateway by the entrance hall of the temple was ten and one half feet wide. He also measured the entrance hall of the gateway. It extended fourteen feet from the Temple. Its recessed walls were three and one half feet thick. The gateway's entrance hall faced the Temple. There were three guardrooms on each side of the eastern gateway. All three rooms on each side were the same size, and the recessed walls on each side were the same size. The man measured the width of the entrance to the gateway. It was seventeen and one half feet wide, and the gateway was twenty-three feet long. There was a barrier about twenty-one inches in front of each guardroom. The guardrooms were ten and one half feet square. He measured the gateway from the top of one guardroom to the top of the opposite guardroom. It was forty-four feet wide from one door to the opposite door. He also measured the entrance hall. It was thirty-five feet wide. In front of the entrance hall to the gateway was a courtyard on all sides. The total length of the gateway from the front of the outer part to the front of the inner part of the entrance hall was eighty-seven and one half feet. The guardrooms and recessed walls inside the gateway had small windows all around. The entrance hall also had windows all around on the inside. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls. Then the man brought me into the outer courtyard. I saw rooms there and pavement all around the courtyard. There were thirty rooms along the edge of the pavement. The pavement in the lower courtyard ran alongside the gateways. It was as wide as it was long. The man measured the distance from the inside of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner courtyard. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet from the east and to the north. The man measured the length and width of the gateway, leading to the outer courtyard. This was the gateway that faced north. Its three guardrooms, its recessed walls, and its entrance hall were the same size as those in the east gateway. The gateway was eighty-seven and one half feet long and forty-four feet wide. Its windows, recessed walls, and palm tree pictures were the same size as those in the east gateway. Seven steps went up to it and led to its entrance hall. The inner courtyard had a gateway opposite the north gate just like the east gateway. The man measured the distance from one gate to the other gate. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet. The man led me to the south side, and I saw a gateway that faced south. He measured its recessed walls and its entrance hall. They were the same size as those of the other gateways. The gateway and its entrance hall had windows on all sides like the windows in the other gateways. It was eighty-seven and one half feet long and forty-four feet wide. Seven steps went up to it and led to its entrance hall. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls, one picture on each side. The inner courtyard had a gateway facing south. The man measured the distance from the gateway on the south side to its opposite gateway. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet. The man brought me to the inner courtyard through the south gateway. He measured the south gateway. It was the same size as the others. Its guardrooms, recessed walls, and entrance hall were the same size as the other gateways. The guardrooms and the entrance hall had windows all around. The gateway was eighty-seven and one half feet long and forty-four feet wide. There were entrance halls all around the inner courtyard. They were all forty-four feet long and nine feet wide. The entrance halls faced the outer courtyard. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls, and eight steps led up to each gateway. The man brought me to the east side of the inner courtyard. He measured the gateway. It was the same size as the others. Its guardrooms, recessed walls, and entrance halls were the same size as those of the other gateways. Its guardrooms and entrance hall had windows all around. The gateway was eighty-seven and one half feet long and forty-four feet wide. Its entrance hall faced the outer courtyard. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls, and eight steps led up to the gateway. Then the man brought me to the north gateway. He measured it. It was the same size as the others. Its guardrooms, recessed walls, and entrance hall had windows all around. The gateway was eighty-seven and one half feet long and forty-four feet wide. Its recessed walls faced the outer courtyard. Pictures of palm trees were carved on the recessed walls, and eight steps led up to the gateway. There was a room with a door that opened toward the entrance hall of the gateway. This is the room where the priests washed the animals for the burnt offerings. There were two tables on each side of the entrance hall of the gateway. On these tables the animals were slaughtered for burnt offerings, offerings for sin, and guilt offerings. On each side of the entrance to the north gateway there were two tables, and on the other side of the entrance hall of the gateway there were two tables. So there were four tables on each side of the gateway, eight tables in all, on which they slaughtered animals. There were four tables made of cut stone for burnt offerings. They were three feet long, three feet wide, and twenty-one inches high. On these tables the priests laid the utensils that were used to slaughter animals for burnt offerings and sacrifices. Double-pronged hooks, three inches long, were attached to the wall all around the room, and the tables were for the meat of the animals. Outside the gateways to the inner courtyard were the rooms for the singers in the inner courtyards. One room was at the side of the north gateway. It faced south. The other room was at the side of the south gateway. It faced north. The man said to me: This room that faces south is for the priests who serve in the temple. The room that faces north is for the priests who serve at the altar. These priests are Zadok's descendants. They are the only Levites who are able to come near Jehovah and serve him. The man measured the courtyard. It was a perfect square: one hundred and seventy-five feet long and one hundred and seventy-five feet wide. The altar was in front of the Temple. The man brought me to the entrance hall of the Temple and measured its recessed walls. They were nine feet on each side. The gateway was twenty-four and one half feet wide, and the walls on each side were five feet wide. The entrance hall was thirty-five feet long and twenty-one feet wide. Steps led up to it. Pillars stood by the recessed walls, one on each side of the entrance hall.

The man brought me into the Holy Place in the Temple and measured the recessed walls. They were ten and one half feet wide on each side. The entrance was seventeen and one half feet wide, and on each side of the entrance the walls were nine feet wide. Then he measured the length of the holy place. It was seventy feet long and thirty-five feet wide. He went inside and measured the passageway. It was three and one half feet thick. The entrance was ten and one half feet high and twelve feet wide.read more.
He measured the room at the end of the holy place. It was thirty-five feet long and thirty-five feet wide. The man said: This is the Most Holy Place (Holy of Holies). Next, the man measured the Temple wall. It was ten and one half feet wide, and each side room around the Temple was seven feet. The rooms were arranged on three different stories. There were thirty rooms on each story. These rooms had supports all the way around the Temple wall, but these supports were not fastened to the Temple wall. The side rooms grew wider all the way around as they went up, story after story. The surrounding structure went from story to story all around the Temple. The structure grew wider as it went higher. A stairway went from the first story through the second story to the third story. I also saw a raised base all around the Temple. This base was the foundation for the side rooms. It measured the full length of the measuring rod, ten and one half feet. The outer wall of the side rooms was nine feet thick. There was an open area between the side rooms connected to the Temple and the priests' rooms. It was thirty-five feet wide and went all around the Temple. The doors in the side rooms were entrances into the open area. There was one door to the north and another to the south. The base of the open area was nine feet wide all the way around. At the far end of the open area, on the west side of the temple, was a building one hundred twenty-two and one-half feet wide. The wall of the building was nine feet thick all the way around, and it was one hundred fifty seven and one half feet long. The man measured the Temple. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet long. This included the open area with the building and its walls. All together it was one hundred and seventy-five feet long. The eastern side of the Temple, including the open area, was also one hundred and seventy-five feet wide. He also measured the length of the building facing the courtyard on the west side along with its corridors on both sides. It was one hundred and seventy-five feet long. The holy place and the Most Holy Place were paneled. The doorposts, the small windows, and the corridors of all three stories were paneled. The walls, from the floor up to the windows, were paneled. In the space above the door to the Most Holy Place and on the walls all around it, there were pictures of cherubim angels and palm trees. Palm trees were positioned between each of the angels, and each angel had two faces: the face of a man, which was turned toward a palm tree on one side, and the face of a lion, which was turned toward a palm tree on the other side. These pictures were carved all around the Temple. Pictures of cherubim angels and palm trees were carved on the walls from the floor to the space above the door. The doorframes in the Holy Place were square. In front of the Most Holy Place was something similar. There was a wooden altar. It was five feet high and three and one half feet wide. Its corners, its base, and its sides were made of wood. Then the man told me: This is the table that is in the presence of Jehovah. The Holy Place and the Most Holy Place had two doors. Each of the doors were double doors that swung open. Pictures of cherubim angels and palm trees were carved on the doors of the Holy Place as on the walls. There was a wooden roof hanging over the outer entrance hall. There were small windows and palm trees on both sides of the entrance hall, on the side rooms of the Temple, and on the roofs.

The man led me out to the north to the outer courtyard. He brought me to the side rooms opposite both the open area and the northern building. The building that faced north was one hundred and seventy-five feet long and eighty-seven and one half feet wide. Opposite the inner courtyard was an area that was thirty-five feet wide, and opposite the pavement of the outer courtyard were corridors facing corridors on all three stories.read more.
In front of the side rooms was a walkway. It was seventeen and one half feet wide and one hundred and seventy-five feet long. The doors of these side rooms faced north. The side rooms on the third story were narrower than those on the first or second stories of the building because the corridors took space away from them. The rooms were in three stories. They did not have pillars like the pillars in the courtyards. That is why the rooms on the third story were set farther back than those on the first and second stories. There was a wall that ran parallel to the side rooms and the outer courtyard. It ran alongside the side rooms for eighty-seven and one half feet. The row of rooms in the outer courtyard was eighty-seven and one half feet long. The rooms that faced the temple were one hundred and seventy-five feet long. These lower side rooms had an entrance on the east side. A person was able to enter the outer courtyard through them. There were side rooms parallel to the wall of the courtyard on the south side. They faced the open area and the building. There was a walkway in front of them. It was like the one that was in front of the side rooms on the north side. These side rooms were as long and as wide as the northern rooms. They had similar exits, dimensions, and doors. The doors to the south rooms were the same as the doors to the north rooms. There was a doorway at the other end of the walkway that was parallel to the corresponding wall that ran eastward. People entered through that doorway. The man said: The northern and southern side rooms that face the open area are holy rooms. These rooms are where the priests who come near Jehovah eat the holiest offerings. Because these rooms are holy, the priests keep the holiest offerings there: the grain offerings, the offerings for sin, and the guilt offerings. Once the priests enter the Holy Place, they must not go out of the Holy Place into the outer courtyard until they leave behind the clothes that they wore as they served. These clothes are holy. The priests must put on other clothes. Then they can go into the area that is for the people. When the man had finished measuring the inner part of the temple area, he led me out through the east gate. Then he measured all the way around the outer area. He measured the east side with a measuring stick. It was eight hundred and seventy-five feet long according to the measuring stick. He measured the north side. It was eight hundred and seventy-five feet long according to the measuring stick. He measured the south side. It was eight hundred and seventy-five feet long according to the measuring stick. He came around to the west side and measured it. It was eight hundred and seventy-five feet long according to the measuring stick. He measured all four sides. There was a wall all around it. The wall was eight hundred and seventy-five feet long and eight hundred and seventy-five feet wide. It separated what was holy from what was unholy.

Son of man, describe this Temple to the people of Israel. Then they will be ashamed because of their sins. Let them study the plans. Suppose they are ashamed of everything that they have done. Then show them the design of the Temple, its arrangements, its exits and entrances-its entire design. Tell them about all its rules and regulations. Then write these things down for them so that they can remember its design and follow all its rules. This is a regulation of the Temple: The whole area all the way around the top of the mountain is most holy. Indeed, this is a regulation of the Temple.read more.
These are the measurements of the altar, using royal measurements. The royal measuring stick was twenty-one inches long. The base of the altar was twenty-one inches high and twenty-one inches wide. All around the edge of the altar was a rim measuring nine inches wide. This was the height of the altar: From the base on the ground to the lower ledge it was three and one half feet high, and from the lower ledge to the upper ledge it was seven feet high and twenty-one inches wide. The place where the sacrifices were burned was seven feet high. There were four horns above it. It was twenty-one feet square, wide and long. The upper ledge was also square. It was twenty-four and one half feet long and twenty-four and one half feet wide. It had a rim all the way around that was ten and one half inches wide. Its base was twenty-one inches. The steps to the altar faced east.

Then they said: Let us build ourselves a city, with a lofty tower that reaches into space, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.

Solomon took thirteen years to build a palace for himself. The Hall of the Forest of Lebanon was one hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. It had three rows of cedar pillars, fifteen in each row, with cedar beams resting on them. The ceiling was of cedar, extending over storerooms, which were supported by the pillars.read more.
On each of the two sidewalls there were three rows of windows. All the doors and doorframes were rectangular. There were three doors facing each other on opposite sides of the palace. Solomon made the Hall of Pillars seventy-five feet long and forty-five feet wide. In front of the hall was an entrance hall with pillars. He made the hall for the throne. It was a place where he could sit on his throne and judge. The hall was covered with cedar from floor to ceiling. His own private quarters were in a different location than the hall containing the throne. They were similar in design. Solomon also built private quarters like this for his wife, Pharaoh's daughter. From the foundation to the roof, all these buildings, including the large courtyard, were built with high-grade stone blocks. The stone blocks were cut to size and trimmed with saws on their inner and outer faces. The foundation was made with large, high-grade expensive stones. Some were twelve feet and others fifteen feet long. Above the foundation were cedar beams and high-grade expensive stone blocks, which were cut to size. The large courtyard had three layers of cut stone blocks and a layer of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of Jehovah's Temple and the entrance hall.

By wisdom a house is built. It is established by understanding. Knowledge fills the rooms with all precious and pleasant riches.

Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness and his upper rooms without justice. Woe to him who uses his neighbor's services without pay and does not give him his wages. Woe to him who says: 'I will build myself a roomy house with spacious upper rooms, and cut out its windows. I will panel it with cedar and paint it bright red (vermilion).'

BUILD AN ARK of cypress wood (a resinous tree). Make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be four hundred and fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high. Build a roof on it and finish the ark to within eighteen inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle, and upper decks.

The stone that the builders rejected as worthless turned out to be the most important of all.

Jesus said to them: Have you read the Scriptures, 'The stone the builders rejected has been made the chief cornerstone of the building. This was Jehovah's doing, and it is wonderful in our eyes.' (Isaiah 28:16)

Have you not read this Scripture: 'The stone the builders rejected was made the chief corner stone.' (Psalm 118:22, 23)

He looked at them and asked what does the scripture mean: The stone that the builders rejected the same was made the head of the corner?

This precious value is for those who believe. But for the unbeliever: The stone that the builders rejected became the cornerstone.

Everyone who hears my words, and does them is like a wise man that builds his house on a rock. The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house; and it did not fall. It was built on a solid rock foundation. Every one who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand.read more.
The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and battered the house and it fell with a great crash.

He is like a man building a house. He dug and laid a deep foundation upon the rock. A flood sent a stream of water against the house and could not shake it because it was well built. He who hears but does not do is like a man who built a house upon the earth without a foundation. A flood will send a stream of water and immediately it will fall. The ruin of that house will be great.

According to the grace of God that is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let every man take heed how he builds. No other foundation can be laid than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any man builds upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, and stubble;read more.
every man's work will be made known, for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will prove what sort every man's work is.

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens. You are fellow citizens with the holy ones and of the household of God. You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets. Christ Jesus is the chief corner stone. In him each building fits together and grows into a holy Temple for Jehovah. (Zechariah 6:12)read more.
In Christ you are assembled together as a place for God's Spirit to dwell.

You came to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen and precious with God. You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. The scriptures say: I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, chosen and precious (Isaiah 28:16). He who believes in him will not be disappointed (shamed).read more.
This precious value is for those who believe. But for the unbeliever: The stone that the builders rejected became the cornerstone.

O afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will build you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with sapphires. I will make your battlements of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

He looked for the city having real foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

One of the seven angels came to me. He had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues. He said: Come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife. He carried me away in spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy city Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. She had the glory of God. Her light was like a very precious stone, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.read more.
The city had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written on each gate, the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. He who talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city and the gates and the wall. And the city lies foursquare. The length is as large as the width. He measured the city with the reed, fourteen hundred miles. The length and the width and the height of it are equal. He measured the wall, two hundred feet, according to the measure of a man, that is, of the angel. The structure of the wall was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like clear glass. The foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolyte; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, hyacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each individual gate was one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, as transparent glass. I saw no temple there: for the Jehovah God the Almighty and the Lamb are the temple.

Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who determined its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?