They brought out the stone pillars of the temple of Baal and burned {them}.

So they broke down the stone pillars of Baal and destroyed the temple of Baal and made it into a latrine until this day.

And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

And king Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the laver from off them, and took down the sea from off the brazen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stone.

They set up for themselves stone pillars and poles of Asherah worship on every high hill and under every green tree.

He removed the high places, and he smashed the stone pillars; he cut down the poles of Asherah worship and demolished the bronze serpent which Moses had made, for up to those days the {Israelites} were offering incense to it and called it Nehushtan.

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

He also broke into pieces the stone pillars and cut down the Asherah poles and covered their sites [with] human bones.

Then the king said, "What meaneth yonder grave stone that I see?" And the men of the city told him, "It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah and openly denounced the selfsame things that thou hast done to the altar of Bethel."

And Canaan begat Zidon his firstborn, and Heth,

Sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And sons of Zideon: Aiah and Anah.

After this, King Hiram of Tyre sent a delegation to David, accompanied by cedar logs, stone masons, and wood workers, to construct a palace for him.

And David taketh the crown of their king from off his head, and findeth it in weight a talent of gold, and in it a precious stone, and it is on the head of David: and spoil of the city he hath brought out very much,

And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

And David commanded to assemble the resident aliens who [were] in the land of Israel and appointed stone craftsmen to cut dressed stones to build the house of God.

Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house of the LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.

Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.

and with all my power I have prepared for the house of my God, the gold for things of gold, and the silver for those of silver, and the brass for those of brass, the iron for those of iron, and the wood for those of wood, shoham stones, and settings, and stones of painting and of diverse colours, and all kinds of precious stone, and stones of white marble, in abundance.

And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountain, and three thousand six hundred to superintend them.

The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

And he set seventy thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and eighty thousand to be stone-masons in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred overseers to set the people to work.

and he overlayeth the house with precious stone for beauty, and the gold is gold of Parvaim,

There was nothing in the ark but the two stone tablets that Moses had put [inside] at Horeb [on] which Yahweh had {made} a covenant with the {Israelites} when they went out from Egypt.

And Solomon accomplished all the work from the day the foundation stone [was laid for] the house of Yahweh until its completion, and the house of Yahweh was finished.

And the queen of Sheba hath heard of the fame of Solomon, and cometh in to try Solomon with acute sayings, to Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels bearing spices and gold in abundance, and precious stone; and she cometh in unto Solomon, and speaketh with him all that hath been with her heart,

And she giveth to the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and spices in great abundance, and precious stone; and there hath not been any such spice as the queen of Sheba hath given to king Solomon.

And also, servants of Huram, and servants of Solomon, who brought in gold from Ophir, have brought in algum-trees and precious stone.

And king Rehoboam will send Hadoram who was over the tribute; and the sons of Israel will stone upon him, and he will die. And king Rehoboam strengthened himself to go up into the chariot to flee to Jerusalem.

He removed the foreign altars and high places, broke down the stone pillars, and cut down the Asherahs.

And they conspire against him, and stone him with stones by the command of the king, in the court of the house of Jehovah,

And when all this was finished, all Israel who were found in the cities of Judah went out and shattered the stone pillars, cut down the Asherahs, and destroyed the high places and the altars from all Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh {to the very last one}. Then all the Israelites returned, each to his own property [and] to their cities.

And Hezekiah hath riches and honour very much, and treasures he hath made to himself of silver, and of gold, and of precious stone, and of spices, and of shields, and of all kinds of desirable vessels,

Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

May it be known to the king that we went to the province of Judah, the house of the great God. It is being built with stone blocks and timber is being put in the walls. This work is being done with diligence and is making progress in their hands.

Let the Temple be rebuilt where they offered sacrifices. Let the foundations thereof be laid with a height of 60 cubits and a width of 60 cubits, constructed with three layers of foundation stone interlaced with a row of new timber, the expenses for which are to be paid from the king's treasury.

But now is there a little and sudden graciousness come from the LORD our God, so that some of us are escaped: that he may give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may light our eyes, and give us a little life in our bondage.

Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.

There were curtains of finely woven linen and blue cloth tied with cords of fine white linen and purple cloth to silver curtain rings and pillars of alabaster, [and] couches of gold and silver on a paved floor of alabaster, precious stone, mother-of-pearl, and costly stones.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.

And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.

So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

For the arrows of the Almighty are within me; my spirit drinks their poison; God's sudden terrors are arrayed against me.

Is my strength that of stone,
or my flesh made of bronze?

His roots are wrapped about the'stone -heap, He beholdeth the place of stones.

When disaster brings sudden death,
He mocks the despair of the innocent.

Then, indeed, you could lift up your face [to Him] without moral defect,
And you would be firmly established and secure and not fear.

“His wrath has torn me and hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with his teeth;
My adversary sharpens His gaze and glares [with piercing eyes] at me.

“God hands me over to criminals
And tosses me [headlong] into the hands of the wicked.

“I was [living] at ease, but He crushed me and broke me apart,
And He has seized me by the neck and has shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.

“His arrows surround me.
He pierces my kidneys (vital organs) without mercy;
He pours out my gall on the ground.

“He attacks me, making wound after wound;
He runs at me like a warrior.

"Sudden terrors terrify him all around, and they chase him at his heels.

In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.

“Oh, that the words I now speak were written!
Oh, that they were recorded in a scroll!

or were inscribed in stone forever
by an iron stylus and lead!

Though he doth sweeten evil in his mouth, Doth hide it under his tongue,

Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

Forget him doth the womb, Sweeten on him doth the worm, No more is he remembered, And broken as a tree is wickedness.

Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

An end hath he set to darkness, And to all perfection he is searching, A stone of darkness and death-shade.

they abhor me, they flee far from me, and stain my face with spittle,

If my goings have swerved from the way, - and, after mine eyes, hath gone my heart, and, to my hands, hath adhered any stain,

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his tabernacle; yea in the secret place of his dwelling shall he hide me, and set me up upon a rock of stone.

Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares, and his net that he hath laid privily catch himself, that he may fall into his own mischief.

I was stone silent; I held back the urge to speak. My frustration grew;

When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.

How long will you threaten a man?
Will all of you attack
as if he were a leaning wall
or a tottering stone fence?

And God doth shoot them with an arrow, Sudden have been their wounds,

How they are destroyed in a moment!
They are utterly swept away by sudden terrors!

He brought streams out of the stone
and made water flow down like rivers.

Therefore He consumed their days like a breath [in emptiness and futility]
And their years in sudden terror.

Your burning anger has passed over me; your sudden fears have destroyed me.

Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction (sudden death) that lays waste at noon.

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

He opened the rock of stone, and the waters flowed out, so that rivers ran in the dry places.

Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

who turned the rock into a pool of water, flinty stone into a spring of water.

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.

For I love thy commandments above gold and precious stone.

when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:

Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.

All of a sudden he follows her like an ox fit for slaughter or like a fool fit for a trap

Balances of deceit, an abomination of Jehovah: and a whole stone his delight

The heart of him that hath understanding will neither despair for any sorrow; nor be too presumptuous for any sudden joy.