1 Kings 6:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

(And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)

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  • Deut 27:5-6 : 5 There you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of stones on which no iron instrument has been used. 6 You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God:
  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18 : 17 By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone. 18 Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.
  • Prov 24:27 : 27 Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
  • Isa 42:2 : 2 He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets.
  • Acts 9:31 : 31 And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.
  • Rom 9:23 : 23 And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,
  • 2 Cor 5:5 : 5 Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.
  • Col 1:12 : 12 Giving praise to the Father who has given us a part in the heritage of the saints in light;
  • Jas 1:20 : 20 For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.
  • Jas 3:17-18 : 17 But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.
  • Exod 20:25 : 25 And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 6:4-6
    3 verses
    81%

    4And for the house he made windows, with network across.

    5And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:

    6The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

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

    17By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

    18Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
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    6To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.

  • 1 Kgs 6:14-19
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    14So Solomon made the building of the house complete.)

    15The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.

    16And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

    17And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

    18(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)

    19And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.

  • 1 Kgs 6:36-38
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    76%

    36And the inner space was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards.

    37In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv.

    38And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.

  • 1 Kgs 6:8-10
    3 verses
    76%

    8The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.

    9So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood.

    10And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.

  • 1 Kgs 7:9-12
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    9All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.

    10And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square.

    11Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

    12The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

  • Ezra 6:4
    74%

    4With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;

  • 2 Chr 34:11
    74%

    11Even to the woodworkers and builders to get cut stone and wood for joining the structure together and for making boards for the houses which the kings of Judah had given up to destruction.

  • 1 Chr 22:2-3
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    74%

    2And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.

    3And he got together a great store of iron, for the nails for the doors and for the joins; and brass, more in weight than might be measured;

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    73%

    9To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.

  • 2 Kgs 12:12
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    12And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.

  • 1 Chr 22:15
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    15And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,

  • 2 Sam 5:11
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    11And Hiram, king of Tyre, sent men to David, with cedar-trees and woodworkers and stoneworkers: and they made David a house.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
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    16And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.

  • 2 Chr 2:6
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    6But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.

  • Hab 2:11
    71%

    11For the stone will give a cry out of the wall, and it will be answered by the board out of the woodwork.

  • 2 Chr 24:12-13
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    12Then the king and Jehoiada gave it to those who were responsible for getting the work done on the Lord's house, and with it they got wall-builders and woodworkers and metal-workers to put the house of the Lord in good order again.

    13So the workmen did their work, making good what was damaged and building up the house of God till it was strong and beautiful again.

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
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    71%

    1In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.

    2The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

  • 1 Kgs 6:30
    71%

    30And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.

  • 1 Chr 29:2
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    2Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.

  • Hag 1:8
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    8Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

  • Exod 31:5
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    5In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork.

  • Ezek 41:6
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    6And the side-rooms, room over room, were three times thirty; there were inlets in the wall of the house for the side-rooms round about, for supports in the wall of the house.

  • Amos 6:11
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    11For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

  • Ps 74:6
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    6Your doors are broken down with hammers and iron blades.

  • Ezek 42:6
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    6For they were on three floors, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the outer square; so the highest was narrower than the lowest and middle floors from the earth level.

  • 2 Chr 3:3
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    3And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

  • 1 Kgs 7:6
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    6And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.

  • Ezek 41:8
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    8And I saw that the house had a stone floor all round; the bases of the side-rooms were a full rod of six great cubits high.

  • 2 Chr 6:18
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    18But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made: