Quotes about Construction

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.

Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field; after that, you may build your house.

King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon.

If she is a wall, we will build a tower of silver upon her. If she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.

Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.

Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.

They constructed all your planking with cypress from Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

Next he measured the wall of the temple to be six cubits thick, and the width of each side room around the temple was four cubits.

The side rooms were arranged one above another in three levels of thirty rooms each. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports would not be fastened into the wall of the temple itself.

The outer wall of the side rooms was five cubits thick, and the open area between the side rooms of the temple

Now the building that faced the temple courtyard on the west was seventy cubits wide, and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, with a length of ninety cubits.