...though everything was maule ready ere it came to the spot, so that, in the language of Holy Writ, " there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building." 1 Kings vi. 7. The site on which the temple was built was Mount Moriah, " where the Lord ar>peared...

...Solomon's vessels to Ophir; and such skillful artisans to prepare the materials for the temple, that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was building. There were three thousand and three hundred overseers, and 150,000 workmen engaged on this...

...temple. 7 And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones hewed and made ready ; so (lint there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building. S The door for the middle side was on the right hand of the house : and by...

...the house when it was building was built of stoue made ready before it was brought thither, so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of IRON, heard in the House of God while it was in building." ( 1 Kings vi. 7.) Now the examples of temples from which my notices...

...remember, brethren, how it was with the tir« temple at Jerusalem, a type of God's bou* in heaven ; "There was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron, heard in thai house while it was in building;" it rose op in a solemn silence. And how was thi? " The house...

...and quiet : or, like the temple of old, for edification sake, there should be " neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was building 6." It has been well observed, that 7 " it is of more importance to every man, that his mind...

...house, when it was building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of...iron heard in the house, while it was in building." The musical services, under the direction of the Grand Organist, were beautifully performed. The collection,...

...we are told that the house " was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither ; so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of...iron heard in the house, while it was in building." Charley. — Oh yes, mamma, I know some verses about that : — "From coasts the stately cedar crowns,...

...from which they did not turn their eyes until the whole building of the house was completed . . . "And there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house in its being built" (ibid.), because the shamir [stone-cutting insect] performed all the splitting...

...opening took place in 977 BC Thirteen years of building operations followed, to which the rule that ' there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard,' did not apply. These works had a lesser sanctity than those of the dwelling-place of Jehovah, which...