New Revised Standard Version
At the king’s command, they quarried out great, costly stones in order to lay the foundation of the house with dressed stones.

Contemporary English Version
He ordered the workers to cut and shape large blocks of good stone for the foundation of the temple.

New American Bible
By order of the king, fine, large blocks of stone were quarried to give the house a foundation of hewn stone.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king commanded that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:

And the king commanded that they should bring great stones, costly stones, for the foundation of the temple, and should square them:

costly stones

1 Kings 6:7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones, hewed and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building.

1 Kings 7:9 All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and measure, both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the walls, and without, unto the great court.

1 Chronicles 22:2 And he commanded to gather together all the proselytes of the land of Israel, and out of them he appointed stonecutters to hew stones and polish them, to build the house of God.

Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will lay a stone in the foundations of Sion, a tried stone, a corner stone, a precious stone, founded in the foundation. He that believeth, let him not hasten.

1 Corinthians 3:11,12 For other foundation no man can lay, but that which is laid: which is Christ Jesus. . . .

1 Peter 2:6,7 Wherefore it is said in the scripture: Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious. And he that shall believe in him shall not be confounded. . . .

Revelation 21:14-21 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations: And in them, the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb, . . .