7. For the House, while being constructed, was built of stone finished at the quarry; with neither hammer, axe nor any iron tool heard in the House during its construction.
8. The doorway to the lowest story of the side chambers was on the right side of the House. They went up by winding stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.
9. When he finished building the House, he covered the House with beams and planks of cedar.
10. He built the stories of the side-structure against the whole House, each five cubits high, and they were fastened to the House with timbers of cedar.
11. Then the word of Adonai came to Solomon saying:
12. “As for this House which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes, execute My ordinances and keep all My mitzvot by walking in them, then I will establish My word with you, which I spoke to your father David,
13. I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel.”
14. So Solomon built the House and finished it.
15. He paneled the walls of the House on the inside with cedar planks of cedar; from the floor of the House to the ceiling he overlaid on the inside with wood; and he overlaid the floor of the House with planks of cypress.
16. Then he partitioned off 20 cubits at the rear part of the House, using cedar boards from the floor to the ceiling, building it as the inner Sanctuary—the Holy of Holies.
17. The House, that is, the Sanctuary, was 40 cubits long in front of the inner Sanctuary.
18. The cedar of the interior of the House was carved as gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was visible.
19. He prepared an inner Sanctuary within the House, to set there the ark of the covenant of Adonai.