1 Kings 6:2–10

²Now ^cthe house which King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits. ³The vestibule in front of the ³sanctuary of the house was ⁴twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the width of ⁵the vestibule extended ⁶ten cubits from the front of the house. ⁴And he made for the house ^dwindows with beveled frames.

⁵Against the wall of the ⁷temple he built ^echambers all around, against the walls of the temple, all around the sanctuary ^fand the ⁸inner sanctuary. Thus he made side chambers all around it. ⁶The lowest chamber was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the temple, so that the support beams would not be fastened into the walls of the ⁹temple. ⁷And ^gthe temple, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built. ⁸The doorway for the ¹middle story was on the right side of the temple. They went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.

^9hSo he built the ²temple and finished it, and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar. ¹⁰And he built side chambers against the entire temple, each five cubits high; they were attached to the temple with cedar beams.