The king specified that large, expensive stones be quarried so the foundation of the Temple could be laid with cut stones.

The foundation was made of expensive stone, including large stones ten cubits long and stones eight cubits long.

All of these were made with expensive stones, pre-cut according to specifications, hand-sawed inside and out from the foundation to the coping, including from inside to the great court.

"So I will turn Samaria into a mound of dirt in a field, a place to plant vineyards. And I will dump her building stones into the valley, uncovering her foundation.

Whether a person builds on this foundation with gold, silver, expensive stones, wood, hay, or straw,