Proverbs 24:27
Prepare your work in the street and get it ready for yourself in the field; afterward, then you shall build your house.
1 Kings 5:17-18
When the king commanded, they quarried great stones [and] precious stones to lay [the] foundation of the house [with] hewn stones.
1 Kings 6:7
Now while the temple was being built, it was built [with] stones finished [at the] quarry, [so that] no hammer or stone shaping tool or any instrument of iron was heard in the temple as it was being built.
Luke 14:28-30
For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down [and] calculate the cost [to see] if he has [enough] {to complete it}?