Above the foundation<n id="1" /> the best<n id="2" /> stones, chiseled to the right size,<n id="3" /> were used along with cedar.

By royal order<n id="1" /> they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple&#8217;s foundation with chiseled stone.

He built the inner courtyard with three rows of chiseled stones and a row of cedar beams.p>

If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it<n id="1" /> of stones shaped with tools,<n id="2" /> for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.<n id="3" />

All of these were built with the best<n id="1" /> stones, chiseled to the right size<n id="2" /> and cut with a saw on all sides,<n id="3" /> from the foundation to the edge of the roof<n id="4" /> and from the outside to the great courtyard.

Around the great courtyard were three rows of chiseled stones and one row of cedar beams, like the inner courtyard of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and the hall of the palace.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">David ordered the resident foreigners in the land of Israel to be called together. He appointed some of them to be stonecutters to chisel stones for the building of God&#8217;s temple.

The four tables for the burnt offering were of carved stone, 32 inches<n id="1" /> long, 32 inches<n id="2" /> wide, and 21 inches<n id="3" /> high. They would put the instruments which they used to slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice on them.

<p class="poetry">Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and exact a grain tax from them,p> <p class="poetry">you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone,p> <p class="poetry">nor will you drink the wine from the fine<n id="2" /> vineyards you planted.<n id="3" />p>