New English Translation

1 Kings 7:1-6 New English Translation (NET)

1. Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace.

2. He named it “The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; it was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.

3. The roof above the beams supported by the pillars was also made of cedar; there were forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

4. There were three rows of windows arranged in sets of three.

5. All of the entrances were rectangular in shape and they were arranged in sets of three.

6. He made a colonnade 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. There was a porch in front of this and pillars and a roof in front of the porch.