1 Kings 6:1-19

¹And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio (the same is the second month), he began to build a house to the Lord.

²And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in height.

³And there was a porch before the temple of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth before the face of the temple.

⁴And he made in the temple oblique windows.

⁵And upon the wall of the temple he built floors round about, in the walls of the house round about the temple and the oracle, and he made sides round about.

⁶The floor that was underneath, was five cubits in breadth, and the middle floor was six cubits in breadth, and the third door was seven cubits in breadth. And he put beams in the house round about on the outside, that they might not be fastened in the walls of the temple.

⁷And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones hewed and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building.

⁸The door for the middle side was on the right hand of the house: and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the middle to the third.

⁹So he built the house, and finished it: and he covered the house with roofs of cedar.

¹⁰And he built a floor over all the house five cubits in height, and he covered the house with timber of cedar.

¹¹And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:

¹²This house, which thou buildest, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments, walking in them, I will fulfill my word to thee which I spoke to David thy father.

¹³And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

¹⁴So Solomon built the house and finished it.

¹⁵And he built the walls of the house on the inside, with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the top of the walls, and to the roots, he covered it with boards of cedar on the inside: and he covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.

¹⁶And he built up twenty cubits with boards of cedar at the hinder part of the temple, from the floor to the top: and made the inner house of the oracle to be the holy of holies.

¹⁷And the temple itself before the doors of the oracle was forty cubits long.

¹⁸And all the house was covered within with cedar, having the turnings, and the joints thereof artfully wrought and carvings projecting out: all was covered with boards of cedar: and no stone could be seen in the wall at all.

¹⁹And he made the oracle in the midst of the house, in the inner part, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.