1Ki 5:17-18 | ESV | STEP | 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 5:17-18

17 At the king’s command ^athey 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 ^bthe men of Gebal did the cutting and prepared the timber and the stone to build the house.