1 Kings 5:17

World English Bible (2000)

The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 22:2 : 2 David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build the house of God.
  • 1 Kgs 6:7 : 7 The house, when it was in building, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
  • 1 Kgs 7:9 : 9 All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
  • Isa 28:16 : 16 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
  • 1 Cor 3:11-12 : 11 For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;
  • 1 Pet 2:6-7 : 6 Because it is contained in Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed." 7 For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, "The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,"
  • Rev 21:14-21 : 14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb. 15 He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its walls. 16 The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, breadth, and height are equal. 17 Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. 18 The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass. 19 The foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; 20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst. 21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

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  • 1 Kgs 5:18
    90%

    18 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 7:9-12
    4 verses
    81%

    9 All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.

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

    11 Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.

    12 The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house.

  • 1 Chr 22:2
    81%

    2 David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut worked stones to build the house of God.

  • Ezra 6:4
    78%

    4 with 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
    76%

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

  • 1 Kgs 5:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;

    16 besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.

  • 2 Kgs 22:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5 Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of Yahweh; and let them give it to the workmen who are in the house of Yahweh, to repair the breaches of the house,

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

  • 2 Sam 5:11
    75%

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

  • 2 Kgs 12:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11 They gave the money that was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of Yahweh: and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders, who worked on the house of Yahweh,

    12 and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the breaches of the house of Yahweh, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

  • 1 Kgs 6:7
    74%

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

  • 2 Chr 2:9
    74%

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

  • 2 Chr 2:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 Now Solomon purposed to build a house for the name of Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

    2 Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.

  • 2 Chr 8:16
    73%

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:36-37
    2 verses
    73%

    36 He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams.

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

  • 1 Chr 22:15
    73%

    15 There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work:

  • 1 Kgs 5:5-7
    3 verses
    73%

    5 Behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, as Yahweh spoke to David my father, saying, 'Your son, whom I will set on your throne in your place, he shall build the house for my name.'

    6 Now therefore command that they cut me cedar trees out of Lebanon. My servants shall be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you shall say. For you know that there is not among us any who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians."

    7 It happened, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, "Blessed is Yahweh this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people."

  • 1 Chr 29:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1 David the king said to all the assembly, "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.

    2 Now 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 various colors, and all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

  • 1 Kgs 5:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 Solomon sent to Hiram, saying,

    3 "You know how that David my father could not build a house for the name of Yahweh his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until Yahweh put them under the soles of his feet.

  • 1 Chr 22:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 David said, "Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for Yahweh must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make preparation for it." So David prepared abundantly before his death.

    6 Then he called for Solomon his son, and commanded him to build a house for Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 9:15
    72%

    15 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  • 2 Chr 3:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1 Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    2 He began to build in the second [day] of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

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

    11 The word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,

  • Exod 31:5
    71%

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

  • 1 Chr 14:1
    71%

    1 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house.

  • 2 Chr 2:12
    71%

    12 Huram continued, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for Yahweh, and a house for his kingdom.

  • Ezra 5:8
    71%

    8 Be it known to the king, that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goes on with diligence and prospers in their hands.

  • 1 Kgs 5:13
    71%

    13 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

  • 1 Chr 28:10
    71%

    10 Take heed now; for Yahweh has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary. Be strong, and do it."

  • Ezra 5:17
    71%

    17 Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king's treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter."

  • Lev 14:42
    70%

    42 They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.

  • 2 Chr 24:12
    70%

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

  • 1 Kgs 6:1
    70%

    1 It happened 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 Yahweh.

  • 1 Chr 29:8
    70%

    8 They with whom [precious] stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of Yahweh, under the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.

  • Ezra 3:10
    70%

    10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, after the order of David king of Israel.