1 Kings 6:5-10

51Against the wall of the house he built stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the 2inner sanctuary; thus he made 3side chambers all around. 6The lowest story was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he 4made offsets in the wall of the house all around in order that the beams would not 5be inserted in the walls of the house.

76The house, while it was being built, was built of stone 7prepared at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built.

8The doorway for the 8lowest side chamber was on the right side of the house; and they would go up by winding stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third. 9So 9he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and 10planks of cedar. 10He also built the stories against the whole house, each five 11cubits high; and they 12were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.