³ And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,

¹ Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

² The building was started in the second month in the fourth year of his rule.

³ And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.

⁴ And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

¹ In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year that Solomon was king of Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, the building of the Lord's house was started.

² The house which Solomon made for the Lord was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.

³ The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

⁴ And for the house he made windows, with network across.

⁵ And against the walls all round, and against the walls of the Temple and of the inmost room, he put up wings, with side rooms all round:

⁶ The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.

⁷ (And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)

³ And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which the king did not make clear to her.

²³ Who, when he came and saw the grace of God, was glad; and he made clear to them the need of keeping near the Lord with all the strength of their hearts: