1. And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of Jehovah.
2. And the house which king Solomon built for Jehovah, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty
3. And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house;
4. And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
5. And against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.