1 Kings 7:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

All these were of costly stones Namely, the buildings described here, and in the former chapter. According to the measures of hewed stones Either, 1st, Which were hewed in such measure and proportion, as exact workmen use in hewing ordinary stones: or, 2d, As large as hewed stones commonly are, which are often very great. Sawed them with saws, within and without Both on the inside of the buildings, which were covered with cedar, and on the outside also. From the foundation unto the coping From the bottom to the top of the building. So on the outside toward the great court Not only on the outside of the front of the house, which, being most visible, men are more careful to adorn, but also of the other side of the house, which looked toward the great court belonging to the king's house.