7. Now while the temple was being built, it was built with stones finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or stone shaping tool or any instrument of iron was heard in the temple as it was being built.
8. The doorway of the side room in the middle of the side of the temple was on the south; they went up with a stairway to the middle and from the middle to the third floor.
9. So he built the house and finished it. He covered the temple with rafters and wood planks and with the cedars.
10. He also built the structure against all of the temple five cubits in height and fastened it to the temple with beams of cedar.
11. Then the word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,
12. “Regarding this temple that you are building: if you walk in my ordinances and if you do my judgments and you keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my promise with you which I made to David your father.
13. And I will dwell among the Israelites, and I will not forsake my people Israel.”
14. So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
15. He lined the walls of the inside of the house with boards of cedar; from the floor of the temple up to the rafters of the ceiling he covered them with wood on the inside. He also covered the floor of the temple with cypress boards.
16. He built twenty cubits from the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor up to the ceiling, and he built for it an inner sanctuary on the inside, as the most holy place.
17. The main hall of the temple was forty cubits in front of the inner sanctuary,
18. with the cedar within the inner house having carvings of gourds and buds of flowers. It was entirely of cedar; there was not a stone visible.
19. Now in the inner sanctuary in the middle of the temple he prepared the inside to place the ark of the covenant of Yahweh there.