5. and adjoining the wall of the house he built a substructure around its walls that enclosed the nave and the inner sanctuary, and he made side chambers all around.
6. The lowest story was five cubits wide, the middle one six cubits wide, the third seven cubits wide, because he put recesses along the outside of the house to avoid fastening anything into the walls of the house.
7. The house was built of stone dressed at the quarry, so that no hammer or ax, no iron tool, was to be heard in the house during its construction.
8. The entrance to the middle story was on the south side of the house; stairs led up to the middle story and from the middle story to the third.
9. When he had finished building the house, it was roofed in with rafters and boards of cedar.
10. He built the substructure five cubits high all along the outside of the house, to which it was joined by cedar beams.
11. The word of the Lord came to Solomon:
12. As to this house you are building—if you walk in my statutes, carry out my ordinances, and observe all my commands, walking in them, I will fulfill toward you my word which I spoke to David your father.
13. I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites and will not forsake my people Israel.