Kings III 6:1-19

¹And it came to pass in the four hundred and fortieth year after the departure of the children of Israel out of Egypt, in the fourth year and second month of the reign of King Solomon over Israel,

^1athat the king commanded that they should take great and costly stones for the foundation of the house, and hewn stones.

^1bAnd the men of Solomon, and the men of Hiram hewed the stones, and laid them for a foundation.

^1cIn the fourth year he laid the foundation of the house of the Lord, in the month Ziv, even in the second month.

^1dIn the eleventh year, in the month Bul, this is the eighth month, the house was completed according to all its plan, and according to all its arrangement.

²And the house which the king built to the Lord was forty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and its height five and twenty cubits.

³And the porch in front of the temple—twenty cubits was its length according to the breadth of the house in front of the house: and he built the house, and finished it.

⁴And he made to the house secret windows inclining inward.

⁵And against the wall of the house he set chambers round about the temple and the ark.

⁶The under side was five cubits broad, and the middle part six, and the third was seven cubits broad; for he formed an interval to the house round about without the house, that they might not touch the walls of the house.

⁷And the house was built in the construction of it with rough hewn stones: and there was not heard in the house in the building of it hammer or axe, or any iron tool.

⁸And the porch of the under side was below the right wing of the house, and there was a winding ascent into the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third story.

⁹So he built the house and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars.

¹⁰And he made the partitions through all the house, each five cubits high, and enclosed each partition with cedar boards.

¹⁵And he framed the walls of the house within with cedar boards, from the floor of the house and on to the inner walls and to the beams: he lined the parts enclosed with boards within, and compassed the inward parts of the house with planks of fir.

¹⁶And he built the twenty cubits from the top of the wall, one side from the floor to the beams, and he made it from the oracle to the most holy place.

¹⁷And the temple was forty cubits in extent,

¹⁹in front of the oracle in the midst of the house within, in order to put there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.