Quotes about Stones
And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
- 1 Kings 5:17
The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
- 1 Kings 6:7
All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.
- 1 Kings 7:9
The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.
- 1 Kings 7:10
Above these were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 7:11
She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. So she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was on her mind.
- 1 Kings 10:2
(The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones.
- 1 Kings 10:11
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- 1 Kings 10:27
Then King Asa summoned all the men of Judah, with no exceptions, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had used for building. And with these materials King Asa built up Geba of Benjamin, as well as Mizpah.
- 1 Kings 15:22
And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said, “Israel shall be your name.”
- 1 Kings 18:31
And with the stones, Elijah built an altar in the name of the LORD. Then he dug a trench around the altar large enough to hold two seahs of seed.
- 1 Kings 18:32
Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the dust, and it licked up the water in the trench.
- 1 Kings 18:38