10 The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.
1 Kings 7:10
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1 Kings 5:16–18
16 not including his 3,300 foremen who supervised the workers. 17 And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones. 18 So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and p…
Judith 1:2–4
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2 Chronicles 3:2–4
2 Solomon began construction on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign. 3 The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard. 4 The portico at the front, extend…
1 Esdras 6:24–26
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2 Chronicles 3:14–16
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Ezra 6:3–5
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Sirach 50:1–3
1 It was Simon, the son of Onias, the high priest, who in his life repaired the house, and in his days strengthened the temple. (WEB) 2 The foundation was built by him to the height of the double walls, the lofty retaining walls of the temple enclosure. (WEB) 3 In his days, a wa… (WEB)
Ezekiel 41:7–9
7 The side rooms surrounding the temple widened at each successive level, because the structure surrounding the temple ascended by stages corresponding to the narrowing of the temple wall as it rose upward. And so a stairway went up from the lowest story to the…
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