By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv.

All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.

And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square.

He put up the pillars at the doorway of the Temple, naming the one on the right Jachin, and that on the left Boaz.

Every base had four wheels of brass, turning on brass rods, and their four angles had angle-plates under them; the angle-plates under the base were of metal, and there were ornaments at the side of every one.

The four wheels were under the frames, and the rods on which the wheels were fixed were in the base; the wheels were a cubit and a half high.

And there were four angle-plates at the four angles of every base, forming part of the structure of the base.

And at the top of the base there was a round vessel, half a cubit high;

In his days Hiel made Jericho; he put its base in position at the price of Abiram, his oldest son, and he put its doors in place at the price of his youngest son Segub; even as the Lord had said by Joshua, the son of Nun.