the foundation

Esajas 28:16
derfor, saa siger den Herre HERREN: Se, jeg lægger i Zion en prøvet Sten, en urokkelig, kostelig Hjørnesten; tror man, haster man ikke.

Esajas 54:11
Du arme, forblæste, utrøstede! Se, jeg bygger dig op med Smaragder, lægger din Grund med Safirer,

1.Korinther 3:10,11
Efter den Guds Naade, som blev given mig, har jeg som en viis Bygmester lagt Grundvold, men en anden bygger derpaa. Men enhver se til, hvorledes han bygger derpaa!…

Aabenbaring 21:19,20
Stadmurens Grundsten vare prydede med alle Haande Ædelsten: den første Grundsten var Jaspis, den anden Safir, den tredje Kalkedon, den fjerde Smaragd,…

21 inches, the ten cubits are

17 feet and a half, and the eight cubits are

14 feet. The magnitude of these stones was certainly extraordinary; but let us hear M. Volney, and our surprise will no longer be fixed on these stones, but transferred from Solomon's house to the ruins of Balbec: `What is still more astonishing is the enormous stones which compose the sloping wall. To the west, the second layer is formed of stones which are from

1.Kongebog 7:28
Og Stellene var indrettet saa ledes: De havde Mellemstykker, og Mellemstykkerne sad mellem Rammestykkerne.

to

35 feet long, by about

9 in height. Over this layer, at the north-west angle, there are three stones, which alone occupy a space of

175 feet and a half; viz the first,

58 feet

7 inches; the second,

58 feet

11 inches; and the third, exactly

58 feet; and each of these is

12 feet thick. These stones are of white granite, with large shining flakes, like gypsum: there is a quarry of this kind of stone under the whole city, and another in the adjacent mountains, which is open in several places. On the right, as we approach the city, there is still lying there a stone hewn on three sides, which is

69 feet

2 inches long,

12 feet

10 inches broad, and

13 feet

3 inches in thickness.