Builders

So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.

Then they would put the counted money into the hands of those who supervised the work on the house of the LORD, who in turn would pay those doing the work—the carpenters, builders,

…to the carpenters, builders, and masons—to buy timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.

They also gave money to the carpenters and builders to buy dressed stone, as well as timbers for couplings and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to deteriorate.

When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the LORD, as David king of Israel had prescribed.

Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.

And each of the builders worked with his sword strapped at his side. But the trumpeter stayed beside me.

The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

A song of ascents. Of Solomon. Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain; unless the LORD protects the city, its watchmen stand guard in vain.

Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.

Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders perfected your beauty.

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

Have you never read this Scripture: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

But Jesus looked directly at them and said, “Then what is the meaning of that which is written: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?

This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’

To you who believe, then, this stone is precious. But to those who do not believe, “The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”