1. And it came to pass in the year four hundred and eighty after the sons of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the beginning of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord.
2. And the house which King Solomon built for the Lord, was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.
3. And the porch before the temple of the house was twenty cubits long, according to the width of the house; and its width was ten cubits before the house.
4. And for the house he made windows broad within and narrow without.
5. And against the wall of the house, he built wings round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made chambers round about.
6. The lower wing was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide, for without in the wall of the house, he had made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
7. And the house, when it was built, was put together of perfect stones made ready before they were brought there; so that there was no hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was being built.
8. The door for the middle wing was in the right side of the house; and they went up with winding stairs into the middle wing and out of the middle into the third.