◄ 1 Kings 7:9 ►
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Good News Translation
All these buildings and the great court were made of fine stones from the foundations to the eaves. The stones were prepared at the quarry and cut to measure, with their inner and outer sides trimmed with saws.

New Revised Standard Version
All these were made of costly stones, cut according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, from the foundation to the coping, and from outside to the great court.

Contemporary English Version
From the foundation all the way to the top, these buildings and the courtyard were made out of the best stones carefully cut to size, then smoothed on every side with saws.

New American Bible
All these buildings were of fine stones, hewn to size and trimmed front and back with a saw, from the foundation to the bonding course and outside as far as the great court.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and measure, both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the walls, and without, unto the great court.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and measure, both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the walls, and without, unto the great court.

costly stones

1 Kings 7:10,11 And the foundations were of costly stones, great stones of ten cubits or eight cubits. . . .

1 Kings 5:17 And the king commanded that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:

Context
Solomon Builds His Palace
…8And in the midst of the porch, was a small house, where he sat in judgment of the like work. He made also a house for the daughter of Pharao (whom Solomon had taken to wife) of the same work, as this porch; 9All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and measure, both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the walls, and without, unto the great court.10And the foundations were of costly stones, great stones of ten cubits or eight cubits.…
Cross References
1 Kings 7:8
And in the midst of the porch, was a small house, where he sat in judgment of the like work. He made also a house for the daughter of Pharao (whom Solomon had taken to wife) of the same work, as this porch;

1 Kings 7:10
And the foundations were of costly stones, great stones of ten cubits or eight cubits.

1 Kings 7:8
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