3. The porch in front of the nave of the house was twenty cubits from side to side along the width of the house, and ten cubits deep in front of the house.
4. Windows with closed lattices were made for the house,
5. and adjoining the wall of the house he built a substructure around its walls that enclosed the nave and the inner sanctuary, and he made side chambers all around.
6. The lowest story was five cubits wide, the middle one six cubits wide, the third seven cubits wide, because he put recesses along the outside of the house to avoid fastening anything into the walls of the house.
7. The house was built of stone dressed at the quarry, so that no hammer or ax, no iron tool, was to be heard in the house during its construction.
8. The entrance to the middle story was on the south side of the house; stairs led up to the middle story and from the middle story to the third.
9. When he had finished building the house, it was roofed in with rafters and boards of cedar.
10. He built the substructure five cubits high all along the outside of the house, to which it was joined by cedar beams.
11. The word of the Lord came to Solomon:
12. As to this house you are building—if you walk in my statutes, carry out my ordinances, and observe all my commands, walking in them, I will fulfill toward you my word which I spoke to David your father.
13. I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites and will not forsake my people Israel.
14. When Solomon finished building the house,
15. its inside walls were lined with cedar paneling: he covered the interior with wood from floor to ceiling, and he covered its floor with fir planking.
16. At the rear of the house a space of twenty cubits was set off by cedar panels from the floor to the ceiling, enclosing the inner sanctuary, the holy of holies.
17. The house was forty cubits long, that is, the nave, the part in front.