²⁷ Prepare thy work without, And make it ready for thee in the field; And afterwards build thy house.

¹⁷ And the king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with wrought stone.

¹⁸ And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

⁷ And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

²⁸ For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost, whether he have `wherewith' to complete it?

²⁹ Lest haply, when he hath laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all that behold begin to mock him,

³⁰ saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.