1 Kings 6:2–10

²Inside it was 27 metres long, 9 metres wide, and 13.5 metres high. ³The entrance room was 4.5 metres deep and 9 metres wide, as wide as the sanctuary itself. ⁴The walls of the Temple had openings in them, narrower on the outside than on the inside. ⁵Against the outside walls, on the sides and the back of the Temple, a three-storied annexe was built, each storey 2.2 metres high. ⁶Each room in the lowest storey was 2.2 metres wide, in the middle storey 2.7 metres wide, and in the top storey 3.1 metres wide. The temple wall on each floor was thinner than on the floor below so that the rooms could rest on the wall without having their beams built into it.

⁷The stones with which the Temple was built had been prepared at the quarry, so that there was no noise made by hammers, axes, or any other iron tools as the Temple was being built.

⁸The entrance to the lowest^k storey of the annexe was on the south side of the Temple, with stairs leading up to the second and third storeys. ⁹So King Solomon finished building the Temple. He put in a ceiling made of beams and boards of cedar. ¹⁰The three-storied annexe, each storey^l 2.2 metres high, was built against the outside walls of the Temple, and was joined to them by cedar beams.