1 Kings 6:2-10

2The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was ninety feet long, thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

3The portico in front of the temple sanctuary was thirty feet long extending across the temple’s width, and fifteen feet deep in front of the temple.

4He also made windows with beveled frames for the temple.

5He then built a chambered structure along the temple wall, encircling the walls of the temple, that is, the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around.

6The lowest chamber was 7½ feet wide, the middle was 9 feet wide, and the third was 10½ feet wide. He also provided offset ledges for the temple all around the outside so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls.

7The temple’s construction used finished stones cut at the quarry so that no hammer, chisel, or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

8The door for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the temple. They went up a stairway to the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third.

9When he finished building the temple, he paneled it with boards and planks of cedar.

10He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams; each story was 7½ feet high.