The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.

The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Ziv.

In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho: he laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.

Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.