Isaiah 9:10
The bricks have fallen down, but we will build with cut stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we use cedars instead.
Malachi 1:4
If Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places. So says Jehovah of Hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them the region of wickedness, and the people with whom Jehovah is indignant forever.
1 Kings 7:9-12
All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stones, sawed with saws, inside and out, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
1 Kings 10:27
And the king made silver like stones in Jerusalem, and he made cedars like the sycamore trees in the valley for abundance.