1 Kings 7:1-12

Solomon's Other Buildings

7¹ Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete. ² And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars. ³ And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line. ⁴ There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line. ⁵ And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines. ⁶ And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it. ⁷ Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof. ⁸ And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife. ⁹ All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments. ¹⁰ And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square. ¹¹ Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood. ¹² The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.