Bible Verses About Stones: Great, in Solomon's temple

The king gave orders; and they quarried large stones, expensive stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stone.

Shlomo's and Hiram's builders, along with the men from G'val, worked the stones and prepared the timber and stones for building the house.

All these buildings were made of expensive stone blocks, cut to measure and finished by saws on the inner surfaces as well as the outer ones. These stones were used from the foundation to the eaves and outward from the buildings all the way to the Great Courtyard.

The foundation was of expensive stone blocks, very large ones - stones fourteen to eighteen feet long.

Above these were costly stones, cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

The surrounding Great Courtyard had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams like the inner courtyard of the house of ADONAI and the courtyard by the hall of the house.