1 Kings 6:1-10

Solomon Builds the House of the LORD

6¹ In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started. ² The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. ³ The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house. ⁴ And for the house he made windows, with network across. ⁵ And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round: ⁶ The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house. ⁷ (And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.) ⁸ The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third. ⁹ So he put up the house and made it complete, roofing it with boards of cedar-wood. ¹⁰ And he put up the line of side rooms against the walls of the house, fifteen cubits high, resting against the house on boards of cedar-wood.