◄ 1 Kings 7:10 ►
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
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the foundation

Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone...

Isaiah 54:11 O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors...

1 Corinthians 3:10,11 According to the grace of God which is given to me, as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another builds thereon...

Revelation 21:19,20 And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper...

stones of ten cubits Reckoning the cubit at

21 inches, the ten cubits are

17 feet and a half, and the eight cubits are

14 feet. The magnitude of these stones was certainly extraordinary; but let us hear M. Volney, and our surprise will no longer be fixed on these stones, but transferred from Solomon's house to the ruins of Balbec: `What is still more astonishing is the enormous stones which compose the sloping wall. To the west, the second layer is formed of stones which are from

1 Kings 7:28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:

to

35 feet long, by about

9 in height. Over this layer, at the north-west angle, there are three stones, which alone occupy a space of

175 feet and a half; viz the first,

58 feet

7 inches; the second,

58 feet

11 inches; and the third, exactly

58 feet; and each of these is

12 feet thick. These stones are of white granite, with large shining flakes, like gypsum: there is a quarry of this kind of stone under the whole city, and another in the adjacent mountains, which is open in several places. On the right, as we approach the city, there is still lying there a stone hewn on three sides, which is

69 feet

2 inches long,

12 feet

10 inches broad, and

13 feet

3 inches in thickness.



Context
Solomon Builds his Palace

1But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house. 2He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars. 3And it was covered with cedar above on the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. 4And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. 5And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks. 6And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them. 7Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other. 8And his house where he dwelled had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like to this porch. 9All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court. 10And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. 11And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars. 12And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the foundations were of costly stones, great stones of ten cubits or eight cubits:

Darby Bible Translation
And the foundations were of costly stones, great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.

King James Bible
And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

Young's Literal Translation
And the foundation is of precious stone, great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits;

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