1 Kings 5:17

Solomon's Wisdom: Architecture

¹⁶ besides Solomon’s 3,300 chief deputies who were over the project and who ruled over the people who were doing the work. ¹⁷ Then the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones. ¹⁸ So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timbers and the stones to build the house.

Build the Temple

Foundation of the Temple

Foundation Of The House

1 Kings 6:7

The house, while it was being built, was built of stone prepared at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built.

1 Chronicles 22:2

So David gave orders to gather the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to hew out stones to build the house of God.

1 Kings 7:9

All these were of costly stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.

Isaiah 28:16

Therefore thus says the Lord God,
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone,
A costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed.
He who believes in it will not be disturbed.

1 Corinthians 3:11-12

For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:6-7

For this is contained in Scripture:
“Behold, I lay in Zion a choice stone, a precious corner stone,
And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”

Revelation 21:14-21

And the wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.