1 Kings 7:9

All these [ i.e. buildings ,palaces] were of costly [or precious; cf. 1 Kings 5:1-18 :31 and 1 Kings 5:10 , 1 Kings 5:11 ] stones, according to the measures of hewed stones [lit; of squaring or hewing , same word in 1 Kings 5:1-18 :31 (Hebrews), 1 Kings 6:36 , and Isaiah 9:9 , etc. All the stones in these several buildings were shaped to certain specified dimensions], sawed with saws [ גָּרַר is obviously an onomatopoetic word, like our saw. Gesenius cites σαίρω , serro, etc. The Egyptians, whose saws were apparently all single handed, do not seem to have applied this instrument to stone, but part of a double-handed saw was found at Nimrud . That saws were in common use and were made of iron is implied in 2 Samuel 12:31 ], within and without [It is not quite clear whether the meaning is that the two surfaces exposed to view, one within and the other without, the building were shaped with saws, or that the inner and hidden surface of the stone was thus smoothed as well as the exposed parts], even from the foundation unto the coping [or corbels. It is generally agreed (Gesen; Keil, Bight) that the reference is to the "projecting stones on which the beams rest," though Thenius would understand battlements ( Deuteronomy 22:8 ) to be intended. But for these a different word is always used, and the LXX γεῖσος signifies the projection of the roof, not an erection upon it], and so on the outside toward the great court [ i.e; the pavement of the court was of sawed stones (see 2 Samuel 12:12 ).]