1 Kings 6:7

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that 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 the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up [any] iron [tool] upon them. 6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
  • 1 Kgs 5:17-18 : 17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house. 18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew [them], and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.
  • Prov 24:27 : 27 ¶ Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.
  • Isa 42:2 : 2 He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
  • Acts 9:31 : 31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.
  • Rom 9:23 : 23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
  • 2 Cor 5:5 : 5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing [is] God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.
  • Col 1:12 : 12 ¶ Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath 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, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
  • 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
  • Exod 20:25 : 25 And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: 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 narrow lights.

    5And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, [against] the walls of the house round about, [both] of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:

    6The nethermost chamber [was] five cubits broad, and the middle [was] six cubits broad, and the third [was] seven cubits broad: for without [in the wall] of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that [the beams] should not be fastened in the walls of the house.

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

    17And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, [and] hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

    18And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew [them], and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

  • 2 Kgs 22:6
    77%

    6Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

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

    14So Solomon built the house, and finished it.

    15¶ And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: [and] he covered [them] on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

    16And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built [them] for it within, [even] for the oracle, [even] for the most holy [place].

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

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

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

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

    36And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

    37In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, in the month Zif:

    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 chamber [was] in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle [chamber], and out of the middle into the third.

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

    10And [then] he built chambers against all the house, 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, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and [so] on the outside toward 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, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

    12And the great court round about [was] with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

  • Ezra 6:4
    74%

    4[With] three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king's house:

  • 2 Chr 34:11
    74%

    11Even to the artificers and builders gave they [it], to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

  • 1 Chr 22:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2And David commanded to gather together the strangers 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 joinings; 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] wonderful great.

  • 2 Kgs 12:12
    73%

    12And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, 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 manner of cunning men for every manner of work.

  • 2 Sam 5:11
    72%

    11¶ And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an house.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    72%

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

  • 2 Chr 2:6
    72%

    6But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who [am] I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice 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 the LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD.

    13So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.

  • 1 Kgs 6:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1¶ And 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 Zif, which [is] the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.

    2And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, 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 [things to be made] of gold, and the silver for [things] of silver, and the brass for [things] of brass, the iron for [things] of iron, and wood for [things] of wood; onyx stones, and [stones] to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, 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 the LORD.

  • Exod 31:5
    70%

    5And in cutting of stones, to set [them], and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

  • Ezek 41:6
    70%

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

  • Amos 6:11
    70%

    11For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

  • Ps 74:6
    70%

    6But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.

  • Ezek 42:6
    70%

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

  • 2 Chr 3:3
    70%

    3Now these [are the things wherein] Solomon was instructed 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 a porch of pillars; the length thereof [was] fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch [was] before them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beam [were] before them.

  • Ezek 41:8
    70%

    8I saw also the height of the house 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 built!