Quotes about Construction
The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.
— 1 Kings 6:8
with three layers of cut stones and one of timbers. The costs are to be paid from the royal treasury.
— Ezra 6:4
together with five posts and their hooks. He overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with gold, and their five bases were bronze.
— Exodus 36:38
Then he constructed the courtyard. The south side of the courtyard was a hundred cubits long and had curtains of finely spun linen,
— Exodus 38:9
For they were arranged in three stories, and unlike the courts, they had no pillars. So the upper chambers were set back further than the lower and middle floors.
— Ezekiel 42:6
What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Make a horn on each of its four corners, so that the horns are of one piece, and overlay it with bronze.
— Exodus 27:2
And he joined five of the curtains together, and the other five he joined as well.
— Exodus 36:10
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
— Genesis 11:3
You are also to make five crossbars of acacia wood for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,
— Exodus 26:26
He joined five of the curtains into one set and the other six into another.
— Exodus 36:16