8. The entrance to these rooms was on bottom floor at the south side of the Temple. Inside there were stairs that went up to the second floor and from there to the third floor.
9. Solomon finished building the main part of the Temple and then covered it inside with cedar boards.
10. Then he finished building the rooms around the Temple. Each story was 5 cubits tall. The cedar beams in these rooms rested on a ledge of the Temple wall.
11. The Lord said to Solomon,
12. “If you obey all my laws and commands, I will do for you what I promised your father David.
13. I will live among the children of Israel in this Temple that you are building, and I will never leave the people of Israel.”
14. When Solomon finished the stonework on the Temple,