Text: 1 Kings 6:7
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 27:5
Subject: building with stones finished offsite
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): None
Significance: In 1 Kings 6:7, the temple was built with stones "finished at the quarry, so that no hammer, chisel, or any iron tool was heard in the house while it was being built." This reflects the principle established in Deuteronomy 27:5, where Moses commands: "Build the altar of the LORD your God of uncut stones (אֲבָנִים שְׁלֵמוֹת, 'avanim shelemot); you must not lift up an iron tool upon them." The prohibition against iron tools at sacred construction sites connects the temple to the Torah's altar law — both sacred structures must not be profaned by the noise or shaping of human implements. Solomon's compliance shows the temple extending the same holiness principles that governed Israel's earliest worship.