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.
4. The windows were narrow on the outside but wide on the inside.
7. Solomon did not want the noise of hammers and axes to be heard at the place where the temple was being built. So he made the workers shape the blocks of stone at the quarry.
8. The entrance to the bottom storage rooms was on the south side of the building, and stairs to the other rooms were also there.
9. The roof of the temple was made out of beams and cedar boards.The workers finished building the outside of the temple.
10. Storage rooms just over two metres high were all around the temple, and they were attached to the temple by cedar beams.
11. The Lord told Solomon:
14. So Solomon's workers finished building the temple.