7. When the temple was built, they did all the stonecutting at the quarry. No hammers, axes, or any iron tools were heard in the temple during its construction.
8. The door to the stairs was at the south side of the temple. Winding stairs went up to the second floor and from there to the third floor.
9. He completed the temple with a roof of cedar beams and cross-planks.
10. Then he built the side rooms all around the temple. They were seven and a half feet high. He attached them to the temple with cedarwood.
11. The Lord’s word came to Solomon,
12. Regarding this temple that you are building: If you follow my laws, enact my regulations, and keep all my commands faithfully, then I will fulfill for you my promise that I made to your father David.
13. I will live among the Israelites. I won’t abandon my people Israel.
14. So Solomon constructed the temple and completed it.
15. He built the walls within the temple with cedar planks, paneled from the floor to the ceiling. He overlaid the floor of the temple with pine planks.
16. At the back of the temple he built thirty feet of cedar panels from the floor to the ceiling. Solomon built the inner sanctuary, the most holy place.