1 Kings 7:9 Meaning and Explanation
“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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What Does 1 Kings 7:9 Mean?
The narrator pauses to describe the masonry: costly stones cut to exact measure, sawn smooth on every side, used from the lowest foundation to the highest coping. Nothing was rough or hidden from care, inside or out.
What is built to last is squared and finished even where no eye will see. The stone hidden in the foundation is cut as carefully as the stone that crowns the wall. So the Lord shapes His people, attending to the inward parts no one else beholds. Integrity is the stone that is true on every side, smooth within as well as without.
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What does 1 Kings 7:9 mean?
All the buildings were made of costly, precisely cut stones from foundation to top.