1 Kings 6:2–10

^2aThe house that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits¹ long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high. ³The vestibule in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits long, equal to the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house. ⁴And ^bhe made for the house windows with recessed frames.^{2 5c}He also built a structure³ against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and ^dthe inner sanctuary. And he made ^eside chambers all around. ⁶The lowest story⁴ was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall in order that the supporting beams should not be inserted into the walls of the house.

⁷When the house was built, ^fit was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.

⁸The entrance for the lowest⁵ story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third. ^9gSo he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar. ¹⁰He built the structure against the whole house, five cubits high, and it was joined to the house with timbers of cedar.