KJV:
And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
NASB:
'If you make an altar of stone for Me, you shall not build it of cut stones, for if you wield your tool on it, you will profane it.
KJV:
And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
NASB:
Then the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stones.
KJV:
And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
NASB:
He built the inner court with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.
KJV:
All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.
NASB:
All these were of costly stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
KJV:
And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
NASB:
And above were costly stones, stone cut according to measure, and cedar.
KJV:
And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.
NASB:
So the great court all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court of the house of the LORD, and the porch of the house.
KJV:
The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
NASB:
"The bricks have fallen down, But we will rebuild with smooth stones; The sycamores have been cut down, But we will replace them with cedars."
KJV:
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
NASB:
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
KJV:
And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
NASB:
For the burnt offering there were four tables of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
KJV:
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
NASB:
Therefore because you impose heavy rent on the poor And exact a tribute of grain from them, Though you have built houses of well-hewn stone, Yet you will not live in them; You have planted pleasant vineyards, yet you will not drink their wine.