1 Kings 7:9
All of these were made with expensive stones, pre-cut according to specifications, hand-sawed inside and out from the foundation to the coping, including from inside to the great court.
1 Kings 5:17
The king specified that large, expensive stones be quarried so the foundation of the Temple could be laid with cut stones.
1 Kings 7:10-11
The foundation was made of expensive stone, including large stones ten cubits long and stones eight cubits long.
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All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
Costly stones
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Costly stones
1 Kings 7:10
The foundation was made of expensive stone, including large stones ten cubits long and stones eight cubits long.
1 Kings 5:17
The king specified that large, expensive stones be quarried so the foundation of the Temple could be laid with cut stones.