Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on 1 Kings 5:17 in English Standard Version "At the king’s command they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones." 1Ki 6:7 When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built. 1Ch 22:2 David commanded to gather together the resident aliens who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to prepare dressed stones for building the house of God.