All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

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All these structures, from the outside to the great courtyard and from foundation to eaves, were made of blocks of high-grade stone cut to size and smoothed on their inner and outer faces.

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10 And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

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10 The foundations were laid with large stones of good quality, some measuring ten cubits[a] and some eight.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 7:10 That is, about 15 feet or about 4.5 meters; also in verse 23
  2. 1 Kings 7:10 That is, about 12 feet or about 3.6 meters