Bible Verses About Stones: Temple built of

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.

But he answered them, "You see all these? Yes! I tell you, they will be totally destroyed -- not a single stone will be left standing!"

and dash you to the ground, you and your children within your walls, leaving not one stone standing on another — and all because you did not recognize your opportunity when God offered it!”

As some people were remarking about the Temple, how beautiful its stonework and memorial decorations were, he said,

“The time is coming when what you see here will be totally destroyed — not a single stone will be left standing!”