10 “The bricks have fallen down,
    but we will rebuild with dressed stone;(A)
the fig(B) trees have been felled,
    but we will replace them with cedars.(C)

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10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

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Edom(A) may say, “Though we have been crushed, we will rebuild(B) the ruins.”

But this is what the Lord Almighty says: “They may build, but I will demolish.(C) They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always under the wrath of the Lord.(D)

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Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever.

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27 The king made silver as common(A) in Jerusalem as stones,(B) and cedar as plentiful as sycamore-fig(C) trees in the foothills.

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27 And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.

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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. 10 The foundations were laid with large stones of good quality, some measuring ten cubits[a] and some eight.[b] 11 Above were high-grade stones, cut to size, and cedar beams. 12 The great courtyard was surrounded by a wall of three courses(A) of dressed stone and one course of trimmed cedar beams, as was the inner courtyard of the temple of the Lord with its portico.

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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

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.

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

11 And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

12 And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.

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