1 Kings 6:2–10

²The temple^x that King Solomon built for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty wide and thirty high.^{b 3}The portico^y at the front of the main hall of the temple extended the width of the temple, that is twenty cubits,^c and projected ten cubits^d from the front of the temple. ⁴He made narrow windows^z high up in the temple walls. ⁵Against the walls of the main hall and inner sanctuary he built a structure around the building, in which there were side rooms.^{a 6}The lowest floor was five cubits^e wide, the middle floor six cubits^f and the third floor seven.^g He made offset ledges around the outside of the temple so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.

⁷In building the temple, only blocks dressed^b at the quarry were used, and no hammer, chisel or any other iron tool^c was heard at the temple site while it was being built.

⁸The entrance to the lowest^h floor was on the south side of the temple; a stairway led up to the middle level and from there to the third. ⁹So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar^d planks. ¹⁰And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.