made ready. made perfect.
before: i.e. in the quarries afar off, or beneath the city.
heard. So in the spiritual house. Ephesians 2:20-22.
Related Commentaries of 1 Kings 6:7
1 Kings 6:7
7 And the house, when it was in 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.