By royal order they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone.

The foundation was made of large valuable stones, measuring either 15 feet or 12 feet.

A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Above the foundation the best stones, chiseled to the right size, were used along with cedar.

Then he said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” So they brought stones and put them in a pile. They ate there by the pile of stones.

Is my strength like that of stones? or is my flesh made of bronze?

It wraps its roots around a heap of stones and it looks for a place among stones.

One who quarries stones may be injured by them; one who splits logs may be endangered by them.

Then you must build an altar there to the Lord your God, an altar of stones – do not use an iron tool on them.

You must build the altar of the Lord your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the Lord your God.

Joshua said, “Roll large stones over the mouth of the cave and post guards in front of it.

All who possessed precious stones donated them to the treasury of the Lord’s temple, which was under the supervision of Jehiel the Gershonite.

as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope.

So Moses cut out two tablets of stone like the first; early in the morning he went up to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.

They are then to take other stones and replace those stones, and he is to take other plaster and replaster the house.

And he revealed to you the covenant he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, writing them on two stone tablets.

At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.

So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

All of these were built with the best stones, chiseled to the right size and cut with a saw on all sides, from the foundation to the edge of the roof and from the outside to the great courtyard.