1 Kings 6:3-20

³And the porch before the temple of the house, was twenty cubits in length, in front of the breadth of the house; and ten cubits in breadth at the east side of the house.

⁴And he made for the house windows wide without and narrow within.

⁵And he built on the wall of the house a gallery round about, on the walls of the house round about, of the temple and of the most holy place: and he made side-chambers round about.

⁶The nethermost gallery was five cubits in breadth, and the middle was six cubits in breadth, and the third was seven cubits in breadth; for projections had he made to the house round about on the outside, so as to fasten nothing in the walls of the house.

⁷And the house, when it was in building, was built of entire stones as they had been prepared at the quarry: so that neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron was heard in the house, while it was in building.

⁸The door for the middle gallery sidechamber was in the right side of the house: and with winding stairs they went up into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

⁹So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with hollow tiles, and with boards of cedar.

¹⁰And he built the gallery against all the house, each five cubits in height; and it was fastened on to the house with timber of cedar.

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

¹²This house which thou art building—if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them: then will I perform my word with thee, which I have spoken unto David thy father.

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

¹⁴So did Solomon build the house, and finish it.

¹⁵And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to where the walls touched the ceiling did he overlay it on the inside with wood; and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of fir.

¹⁶And he built the twenty cubits on the lower side of the house with boards of cedar, from the floor to the battlements; and he built it within, for the debir, for the holy of holies.

¹⁷And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

¹⁸And the cedar on the house within was carved with colocynths and opening flowers; all was cedar, no stone was seen.

¹⁹And the debir in the house within did he prepare, to set therein the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

²⁰And the interior of the debir was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits was its height: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he overlaid the altar with cedar-wood.