The king gave orders, and they quarried great stones, valuable stones, to lay the foundation of the house (temple) with cut stones.

The foundation was of expensive stones, large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.

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

In the fourth year [of King Solomon’s reign] the foundation of the Lord’s house was laid, in the [second] month, Ziv (April-May).