²He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; one hundred cubits its length, fifty cubits its width, and thirty cubits its height, on four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams atop the pillars. ³It was covered with cedar above, and the supporting beams which were on the forty-five pillars, fifteen to the row. ⁴There were three rows of specially designed windows; with window to window three times. ⁵All of the doorways and the doorframes had four-sided casings, with opening to opposite opening three times.

⁶The hall of pillars he made fifty cubits in its length and thirty cubits in its width, and a porch was in front of them,^a with pillars and an overhang in front of them.^b ⁷He made the hall of the throne where he would pronounce judgment, the hall of justice, and it was covered with cedar from the floor to the rafters.^c ⁸His house where he would live in the next courtyard on the inside of the porch was like this work, and he would make a house like this porch for the daughter of Pharaoh whom Solomon had taken as wife. ⁹All of these were of precious stones, according to the measurement of dressed stone, sawn with a saw on all sides;^d from the foundation up to the eaves and from the outside up to the great courtyard. ¹⁰The foundation was of precious stones, and large stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits ¹¹with precious stones above, just the right size,^e and cedar. ¹²The great courtyard all around had three rows of dressed stones and a row of cedar beams; for both the courtyard of the inner house^f of Yahweh and for the porch of the house.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “on their face”
bLiterally “on their face”
cHebrew “floor,” but other ancient versions have “rafters”
dLiterally “on the inside and on the outside”
eLiterally “according to the measurement of dressed stones”
fOr “temple”