1 Kings 7:1–12

Solomon’s Palace

¹Now ^aSolomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

^2aHe built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was 100 ¹cubits and its width 50 cubits and its height 30 cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars with cedar beams on the pillars.

³It was paneled with cedar above the side chambers which were on the 45 pillars, 15 in each row.

⁴There were artistic window frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three ranks.

⁵All the doorways and doorposts had squared artistic frames, and window was opposite window in three ranks.

⁶Then he made ^athe hall of pillars; its length was 50 cubits and its width 30 cubits, and a porch was in front of them and pillars and a ^bthreshold in front of them.

⁷He made the hall of the ^athrone where he was to judge, the hall of judgment, and ^bit was paneled with cedar from floor to floor.

⁸His house where he was to live, the other court inward from the hall, was of the same workmanship. ^aHe also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, ^bwhom Solomon had married.

⁹All these were of costly stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.

¹⁰The foundation was of costly stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.

¹¹And above were costly stones, stone cut according to measure, and cedar.

¹²So ^athe great court all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court of the house of the Lord, and ^bthe porch of the house.