^6:2The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet² long, 30 feet³ wide, and 45 feet⁴ high. ^6:3The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet⁵ long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet⁶ wide, extending out from the front of the temple. ^6:4He made framed windows for the temple. ^6:5He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.⁷^6:6The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet⁸ wide, the middle floor nine feet⁹ wide, and the third floor ten and a half¹⁰ feet wide. He made ledges¹¹ on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.¹²^6:7As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry¹³ were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built. ^6:8The entrance to the bottom¹⁴ level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up¹⁵ to the middle floor and then on up to the third¹⁶ floor. ^6:9He finished building the temple¹⁷ and covered it¹⁸ with rafters¹⁹ and boards made of cedar.²⁰^6:10He built an extension all around the temple; it was seven and a half feet high²¹ and it was attached to the temple by cedar beams.

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Footnotes

2 Heb “sixty cubits.” A cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm. Measurements in vv. 2–10 have been converted to feet in the translation for clarity.
3 Heb “twenty cubits.”
4 Heb “thirty cubits.”
5 Heb “twenty cubits.”
6 Heb “ten cubits.”
7 Heb “and he built on the wall of the temple an extension all around, the walls of the temple all around, for the main hall and for the holy place, and he made side rooms all around.”
8 Heb “five cubits.”
9 Heb “six cubits.”
10 Heb “seven cubits.”
11 Or “offsets” (, , , ); “offset ledges.”
12 Heb “so that [the beams] would not have a hold in the walls of the temple.”
13 Heb “finished stone of the quarry,” i.e., stones chiseled and shaped at the time they were taken out of the quarry.
14 The Hebrew text has “middle,” but the remainder of the verse suggests this is an error.
15 Heb “by stairs they went up.” The word translated “stairs” occurs only here. Other options are “trapdoors” or “ladders.”
16 The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew , the , and הַשְּׁלִשִׁית (hashélishit, “the third”) rather than הַשְּׁלִשִׁים (hashélishim, “the thirty”).
17 Heb “built the house and completed it.”
18 Heb “the house.”
19 The word occurs only here; the precise meaning is uncertain.
20 Heb “and rows with cedar wood.”
21 Heb “five cubits.” This must refer to the height of each floor or room.