1 Kings 6:1-10

Solomon Builds the House of the LORD

6¹ Now it came about in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel came out of the land of Egypt , in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel , in the month of Ziv which is the second month , that he began to build the house of the Lord . ² As for the house which King Solomon built for the Lord , its length was sixty cubits and its width twenty cubits and its height thirty cubits . ³ The porch in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits in length , corresponding e to the width of the house , and its depth along the front of the house was ten cubits . ⁴ Also for the house he made windows with artistic frames . ⁵ Against the wall of the house he built stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the inner sanctuary ; thus he made side chambers all around . ⁶ The lowest story was five cubits wide , and the middle was six cubits wide , and the third was seven cubits wide ; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house all around in order that the beams would not be inserted in the walls of the house . ⁷ 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 . ⁸ The doorway for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the house ; and they would go up by winding stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third . ⁹ So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar . ¹⁰ He also built the stories against the whole house , each five cubits high ; and they were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar .