^{1 Ref} Solomon was thirteen years building a house for himself till it was complete.

^{2 Ref} And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.

^{3 Ref} And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.

^{4 Ref} There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.

⁵ And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.

^{6 Ref} And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.

^{7 Ref} Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

^{8 Ref} And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.

^{9 Ref} All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.

^{10 Ref} And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square.

^{11 Ref} Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.

^{12 Ref} The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.