1 Kings 6:7

American Standard Version (1901)

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

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  • Deut 27:5-6 : 5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto Jehovah thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt lift up no iron [tool] upon them. 6 Thou shalt build the altar of Jehovah thy God of unhewn stones; and thou shalt offer burnt-offerings thereon unto Jehovah thy God:
  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18 : 17 And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone. 18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.
  • Prov 24:27 : 27 Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.
  • Isa 42:2 : 2 He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.
  • Acts 9:31 : 31 So the church throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified; and, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was multiplied.
  • Rom 9:23 : 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,
  • 2 Cor 5:5 : 5 Now he that wrought us for this very thing is God, who gave unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
  • Col 1:12 : 12 giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;
  • Jas 1:20 : 20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
  • Jas 3:17-18 : 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Exod 20:25 : 25 And if thou make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stones; for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 6:4-6
    3 verses
    81%

    4And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.

    5And against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.

    6The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.

  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18
    2 verses
    79%

    17And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.

    18And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    77%

    6unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

  • 1 Kgs 6:14-19
    6 verses
    77%

    14So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

    15And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

    16And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the walls [of the ceiling] : he built [them] for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.

    17And the house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long] .

    18And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

    19And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

  • 1 Kgs 6:36-38
    3 verses
    76%

    36And he built the inner court with three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams.

    37In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Jehovah laid, in the month Ziv.

    38And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

  • 1 Kgs 6:8-10
    3 verses
    76%

    8The door for the middle side-chambers was in the right side of the house: and they went up by winding stairs into the middle [story], and out of the middle into the third.

    9So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

    10And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

  • 1 Kgs 7:9-12
    4 verses
    75%

    9All these were of costly stones, even of hewn stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto the great court.

    10And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

    11And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.

    12And the great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Jehovah, and the porch of the house.

  • Ezra 6:4
    74%

    4with three courses of great stones, and a course of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house.

  • 2 Chr 34:11
    74%

    11even to the carpenters and to the builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

  • 1 Chr 22:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2And David commanded to gather together the sojourners that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

    3And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    73%

    9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

  • 2 Kgs 12:12
    73%

    12and to the masons and the hewers of stone, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the breaches of the house of Jehovah, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

  • 1 Chr 22:15
    73%

    15Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all men that are skilful in every manner of work:

  • 2 Sam 5:11
    72%

    11And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar-trees, and carpenters, and masons; and they built David a house.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    72%

    16Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of Jehovah, and until it was finished. [So] the house of Jehovah was completed.

  • 2 Chr 2:6
    72%

    6But who is able to build him a house, seeing heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?

  • Hab 2:11
    71%

    11For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

  • 2 Chr 24:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of Jehovah; and they hired masons and carpenters to restore the house of Jehovah, and also such as wrought iron and brass to repair the house of Jehovah.

    13So the workmen wrought, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it.

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.

    2And the house which king Solomon built for Jehovah, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty [cubits], and the height thereof thirty cubits.

  • 1 Kgs 6:30
    71%

    30And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.

  • 1 Chr 29:2
    71%

    2Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the [things of] gold, and the silver for the [things of] silver, and the brass for the [things of] brass, the iron for the [things of] iron, and wood for the [things of] wood; onyx stones, and [stones] to be set, stones for inlaid work, and of divers colors, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance. [

  • Hag 1:8
    71%

    8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah.

  • Exod 31:5
    70%

    5and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of workmanship.

  • Ezek 41:6
    70%

    6And the side-chambers were in three stories, one over another, and thirty in order; and they entered into the wall which belonged to the house for the side-chambers round about, that they might have hold [therein], and not have hold in the wall of the house.

  • Amos 6:11
    70%

    11For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

  • Ps 74:6
    70%

    6And now all the carved work thereof They break down with hatchet and hammers.

  • Ezek 42:6
    70%

    6For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore [the uppermost] was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.

  • 2 Chr 3:3
    70%

    3Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

  • 1 Kgs 7:6
    70%

    6And he made the porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them.

  • Ezek 41:8
    70%

    8I saw also that the house had a raised basement round about: the foundations of the side-chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.

  • 2 Chr 6:18
    70%

    18But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have builded!