1 Kings 7:11

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Eph 2:20-22 : 20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone; 21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.
  • 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.

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  • 1 Kgs 7:9-10
    2 verses
    88%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 7:12
    87%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 6:15-18
    4 verses
    81%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 6:35-36
    2 verses
    81%

    35And he carved [thereon] cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.

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

  • 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.

  • 1 Kgs 7:2-7
    6 verses
    78%

    2For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

    3And it was covered with cedar above over the forty and five beams, that were upon the pillars; fifteen in a row.

    4And there were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.

    5And all the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.

    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.

    7And he made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

  • Ezra 6:4
    77%

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 34:11
    75%

    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 Kgs 6:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    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.

    7And 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.

  • Ezek 41:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15And he measured the length of the building before the separate place which was at the back thereof, and the galleries thereof on the one side and on the other side, a hundred cubits; and the inner temple, and the porches of the court;

    16the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),

    17to [the space] above the door, even unto the inner house, and without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.

  • 2 Chr 3:5-7
    3 verses
    74%

    5And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.

    6And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

    7He overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubim on the walls.

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    74%

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

  • 2 Kgs 12:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11And they gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house of Jehovah: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, that wrought upon the house of Jehovah,

    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.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    73%

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

  • Ezek 41:8
    73%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 22:4
    72%

    4and cedar-trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar-trees in abundance to David.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
    72%

    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.

  • Ezek 41:12
    72%

    12And the building that was before the separate place at the side toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

  • 1 Kgs 7:35-36
    2 verses
    72%

    35And in the top of the base was there a round compass half a cubit high; and on the top of the base the stays thereof and the panels thereof were of the same.

    36And on the plates of the stays thereof, and on the panels thereof, he graved cherubim, lions, and palm-trees, according to the space of each, with wreaths round about.

  • Song 1:17
    72%

    17The beams of our house are cedars, [And] our rafters are firs.

  • 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.

  • Ezek 42:5-6
    2 verses
    71%

    5Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

    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.

  • 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. [

  • Ezek 41:3
    71%

    3Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.

  • 1 Kgs 10:27
    71%

    27And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore-trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

  • Ezek 41:21
    71%

    21As for the temple, the door-posts were squared; and as for the face of the sanctuary, the appearance [thereof] was as the appearance [of the temple] .

  • 2 Chr 3:15
    71%

    15Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.

  • 1 Kgs 6:29
    71%

    29And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without.