¹⁶ Now all the work of Solomon was well-ordered ^[a]from the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was completed.

⁷ And ^(A)the temple, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

¹⁸ So Solomon’s builders, Hiram’s builders, and the Gebalites quarried them; and they prepared timber and stones to build the ^[a]temple.