1. Solomon's workers started building the temple during Ziv, the second month of the year. It had been four years since Solomon became king of Israel, and four hundred and eighty years since the people of Israel left Egypt.
2. The inside of the Lord's temple was twenty-seven metres long, nine metres wide, and thirteen and a half metres high.
3. A four and a half metre porch went all the way across the front of the temple.
12-13. If you obey my commands and do what I say, I will keep the promise I made to your father David. I will live among my people Israel in this temple you are building, and I will not desert them.
20-22. This room was nine metres long, nine metres wide, and nine metres high, and it was lined with pure gold. There were also gold chains across the front of the most holy place. The inside of the temple, as well as the cedar altar in the most holy place, was covered with gold.
24-26. and four and a half metres across. They had two wings, and the wings were just over two metres long.