the foundation

以賽亞書 28:16
所以主耶和華如此說：「看哪，我在錫安放一塊石頭作為根基，是試驗過的石頭，是穩固根基，寶貴的房角石，信靠的人必不著急。

以賽亞書 54:11
「你這受困苦、被風飄蕩、不得安慰的人哪，我必以彩色安置你的石頭，以藍寶石立定你的根基。

哥林多前書 3:10,11
我照神所給我的恩，好像一個聰明的工頭立好了根基，有別人在上面建造，只是各人要謹慎怎樣在上面建造。…

啟示錄 21:19,20
城牆的根基是用各樣寶石修飾的：第一根基是碧玉，第二是藍寶石，第三是綠瑪瑙，第四是綠寶石，…

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

列王紀上 7:28
座的造法是這樣：四面都有心子，心子在邊子當中。

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.