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

Then the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.

All these were of costly stones, of stone cut 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.

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