8. The door for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the temple. They went up a stairway to the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third.
9. When he finished building the temple, he paneled it with boards and planks of cedar.
10. He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams; each story was 7 1/2 feet high.
11. The word of the Lord came to Solomon:
12. “As for this temple you are building — if you walk in My statutes, observe My ordinances, and keep all My commands by walking in them, I will fulfill My promise to you, which I made to your father David.
13. I will live among the Israelites and not abandon My people Israel.”
14. When Solomon finished building the temple,