1 Kings 5:17

17 At the king's command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.

1 Kings 5:17 In-Context

15 Solomon also had seventy thousand laborers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hill country,
16 besides Solomon's three thousand three hundred supervisors who were over the work, having charge of the people who did the work.
17 At the king's command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.
18 So Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did the stonecutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.
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