¹And it came to pass, in the four hundred and eightieth year after the exodus of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fourth year, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, of Solomon's reign over Israel, that he built the house of the Lord. ²And the house which King Solomon built to the Lord was sixty cubits in length and twenty cubits in width and thirty cubits in height. ³And the portico in front of the temple of the house was twenty cubits in length across the width of the house, and its width was ten cubits in front of the house. ⁴And he made overhanging sealed windows for the house. ⁵And he built a side-structure against the wall of the house around it alongside the walls of the house round about, belonging to the temple and the place of address. And he built rows of side-rooms round about. ⁶The lowest storey was five cubits in width and the middle one was six cubits in width and the third one was seven cubits in width, for he made the house with overhanging storeys round about on the outside, so that they would not join flush to the walls of the house. ⁷Now the construction of the house was with whole stones, pre-fashioned for transport, so no hammers or axe or any iron implement was heard in the house during its construction. ⁸The door to the middle row of side-rooms was on the right hand side of the house, and one went up by spiral steps to the middle storey and from the middle storey to the third one. ⁹So he built the house and completed it, and he panelled the house with boards, including the suites of rooms, with cedar. ¹⁰And he built the side-structure against all the house. Its height was five cubits, and it was joined to the house by beams of cedar. ¹¹And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, as follows: ¹²“As regards this house which you are building, if you walk in my statutes and execute my judgments and keep all my commandments by walking in them, then I will establish my word with you which I spoke to David your father, ¹³and I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and I will not leave my people Israel.” ¹⁴And Solomon built the house and completed it. ¹⁵And he built the walls of the house on the inside with cedar panelling. From the ground level of the house up to ceiling height he overlaid the walls with wood on the inside, and he overlaid the floor of the house with panels of cypress. ¹⁶And he built twenty cubits of the sides of the house with panels of cedar from ground level up as far as the walls, and he built them for it on the inside, for the place of address – the holy of holies. ¹⁷And the house was forty cubits in length – that is the temple in front. ¹⁸And the cedar of the house inside was carved into hemispheres and blossoming flowers. Everything was cedar – there was no stone to be seen. ¹⁹And he prepared the place of address inside the house, on the inside, for putting the ark of the covenant of the Lord there. ²⁰And in front of the place of address was a space of twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in width and twenty cubits in height, and he overlaid it with seamless gold, and he overlaid the altar of cedar. ²¹And Solomon overlaid the house inside with seamless gold, and he fixed golden chains in front of the place of address, which he had overlaid with gold. ²²And he overlaid the whole house with gold, so that the whole house was completed, and he overlaid with gold the whole altar which is for the place of address. ²³And in the place of address he made two cherubim of olive tree wood, which were ten cubits tall. ²⁴And the size of one wing of a cherub was five cubits, and the size of the other wing of a cherub was five cubits – ten cubits from one end of its wings to the other end of its wings. ²⁵And the second cherub was ten cubits across; the two cherubim had the same size and the same shape. ²⁶The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub. ²⁷And he placed the cherubim in the inner house, and they spread the wings of the cherubim out, and the wing of one touched the wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall, and their wings in the centre of the house touched wing against wing. ²⁸And he overlaid the cherubim with gold. ²⁹And on all the walls of the house round about he made carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and blossoming flowers, on the inside and on the outside. ³⁰And he overlaid the floor of the house with gold on the inside and on the outside. ³¹And he made the entrance to the place of address with doors of olive tree wood, as well as the lintel and doorposts, making the set of five parts. ³²So the two doors were of olive tree wood, and he made carvings on them of cherubim and palm trees and blossoming flowers, and he overlaid them with gold, and he overlaid the cherubim and the palm trees with gold. ³³And similarly he made the entrance to the temple – the doorposts, from olive tree wood, a set of four parts – ³⁴and the two doors were of cypress wood. The two leaves of the first door were hinged and the two leaves of the second door were hinged. ³⁵And he carved the cherubim and the palm trees and blossoming flowers, and he overlaid them with gold which was applied over what was carved. ³⁶And he built the inner courtyard with three rows of hewn stone and a row of hewn cedar beams. ³⁷In the fourth year the house of the Lord was founded, in the month of Ziv. ³⁸And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul – that is the eighth month – the house was completed in all its aspects and with all its features. So he built it in seven years.