The angel who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.

"O afflicted one, driven away, and unconsoled! Look, I am about to set your stones in antimony and I lay your foundation with lapis-lazuli.

No one will use any of your stones as a cornerstone. No one will use any of them in the foundation of his house. For you will lie desolate forever," says the Lord.

If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

By royal order they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple's foundation with chiseled stone.

All of these were built with the best stones, chiseled to the right size and cut with a saw on all sides, from the foundation to the edge of the roof and from the outside to the great courtyard.

The foundation was made of large valuable stones, measuring either 15 feet or 12 feet.

Above the foundation the best stones, chiseled to the right size, were used along with cedar.

The foundations of the city's wall are decorated with every kind of precious stone. The first foundation is jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,

Therefore, this is what the sovereign master, the Lord, says: "Look, I am laying a stone in Zion, an approved stone, set in place as a precious cornerstone for the foundation. The one who maintains his faith will not panic.

Then he said to his relatives, "Gather stones." So they brought stones and put them in a pile. They ate there by the pile of stones.

When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.

By wisdom the Lord laid the foundation of the earth; he established the heavens by understanding.

Then the king will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished in his sight in love.

because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone.

He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep, and laid the foundation on bedrock. When a flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.

But the person who hears and does not put my words into practice is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against that house, it collapsed immediately, and was utterly destroyed!"

In this way they will save up a treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the future and so lay hold of what is truly life.

However, God's solid foundation remains standing, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and "Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from evil."

Remember, O Lord, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. They said, "Tear it down, tear it down, right to its very foundation!"

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my anger, 'They will never enter my rest!'" And yet God's works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the consummation of the ages to put away sin by his sacrifice.

Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish the tower, all who see it will begin to make fun of him.

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was manifested in these last times for your sake.

and all those who live on the earth will worship the beast, everyone whose name has not been written since the foundation of the world in the book of life belonging to the Lamb who was killed.

The beast you saw was, and is not, but is about to come up from the abyss and then go to destruction. The inhabitants of the earth -- all those whose names have not been written in the book of life since the foundation of the world -- will be astounded when they see that the beast was, and is not, but is to come.

So I will shake the heavens, and the earth will shake loose from its foundation, because of the fury of the Lord who commands armies, in the day he vents his raging anger.

I will break down the wall you coated with whitewash and knock it to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. When it falls you will be destroyed beneath it, and you will know that I am the Lord.

And in this way I desire to preach where Christ has not been named, so as not to build on another person's foundation,

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

He builds the upper rooms of his palace in heaven and sets its foundation supports on the earth. He summons the water of the sea and pours it out on the earth's surface. The Lord is his name.

This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world."

A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

You are to put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod, stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, and Aaron will bear their names before the Lord on his two shoulders for a memorial.

You are to set in it a setting for stones, four rows of stones, a row with a ruby, a topaz, and a beryl -- the first row;

They are then to take other stones and replace those stones, and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house.

So I have made every effort to provide what is needed for the temple of my God, including the gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, as well as a large amount of onyx, settings of antimony and other stones, all kinds of precious stones, and alabaster.

It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

The stones will be a reminder to you. When your children ask someday, 'Why are these stones important to you?'

In the month Ziv of the fourth year of Solomon's reign the foundation was laid for the Lord's temple.

During Ahab's reign, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation; Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates, just as the Lord had warned through Joshua son of Nun.

Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard. You will take turns guarding the palace.

Solomon laid the foundation for God's temple; its length (determined according to the old standard of measure) was 90 feet, and its width 30 feet.

All the work ordered by Solomon was completed, from the day the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid until it was finished; the Lord's temple was completed.

Another third of you will be stationed at the royal palace and still another third at the Foundation Gate. All the others will stand in the courtyards of the Lord's temple.

how much more to those who live in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?

"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

For he set its foundation upon the seas, and established it upon the ocean currents.

Equity and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loyal love and faithfulness characterize your rule.

Dark clouds surround him; equity and justice are the foundation of his throne.

If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.

You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal; you are to have them set in gold filigree settings.

Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone him with stones outside the camp."

The furnishings included linen and purple curtains hung by cords of the finest linen and purple wool on silver rings, alabaster columns, gold and silver couches displayed on a floor made of valuable stones of alabaster, mother-of-pearl, and mineral stone.