1 Kings 6:2–10

²As for the house which King Solomon built for Yahweh, its length was ¹sixty cubits and its width twenty cubits and its height thirty cubits.

³And the porch in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits ¹in length, ²corresponding to the width of the house, and its ³depth along the front of the house was ten cubits.

⁴Also for the house ^ahe made windows with artistic frames.

^5aAnd he built, against the wall of the house, stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the ^binner sanctuary; thus he made ^cside chambers all around.

⁶The 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 ¹made offsets in the wall of the house all around in order that the beams would not ²be inserted in the walls of the house.

^7aThe house, while it was being built, was built of stone ¹prepared at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built.

⁸The doorway for the ¹lowest 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.

⁹So ^ahe built the house and completed it; and he paneled the house with beams and ¹planks of cedar.

¹⁰He also built the stories against the whole house, each five ¹cubits high; and they ²were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.