1. It took Solomon thirteen years, however, to complete the construction of his palace.
2. He built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty wide and thirty high, with four rows of cedar columns supporting trimmed cedar beams.
3. It was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the columns – forty-five beams, fifteen to a row.
4. Its windows were placed high in sets of three, facing each other.
5. All the doorways had rectangular frames; they were in the front part in sets of three, facing each other.
6. He made a colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty wide. In front of it was a portico, and in front of that were pillars and an overhanging roof.