The house, while it was being built, was built of stone prepared at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built.This verse got my attention, due to the the skill involved in this statement. I've worked on construction sites, and been around plenty more. They're noisy places, with saws and hammers and sprayers and everything else. But here, it says there was no tool noises at the building of the temple. To do that, everything had to be created to fit together perfectly, before it ever arrived at the site. Stone blocks, wood beams, fitting together like jigsaw pieces, perfectly formed, virtually airtight. When they arrived at the sight, all you had to do was slide them together. No jostling, beating in a spot where the makers glitched. It all had to be done perfectly.
I imagine this also gave the site a very appropriate reverential air. Having such a relatively quiet location where such holy work was occurring, building the place where God would inhabit, would be a reverential process in itself for any believer. If, on top of that, it was a fairly quiet workspace, is something I just can't picture. The closest I can come would be a monastery being built by monks, all silent and dignified, or perhaps chanting or singing hymns to praise God in their work.
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