'Expensive' in the Bible

The king specified that large, expensive stones be quarried so the foundation of the Temple could be laid with cut stones.

All of these were made with expensive stones, pre-cut according to specifications, hand-sawed inside and out from the foundation to the coping, including from inside to the great court.

The foundation was made of expensive stone, including large stones ten cubits long and stones eight cubits long.

Above these were expensive stones cut according to specifications, and cedar.