3. The entrance room was 4.5 metres deep and nine metres wide, as wide as the sanctuary itself.
4. The walls of the Temple had openings in them, narrower on the outside than on the inside.
5. Against the outside walls, on the sides and the back of the Temple, a three-storied annexe was built, each storey 2.2 metres high.
6. Each room in the lowest storey was 2.2 metres wide, in the middle storey 2.7 metres wide, and in the top storey 3.1 metres wide. The temple wall on each floor was thinner than on the floor below so that the rooms could rest on the wall without having their beams built into it.
7. The stones with which the Temple was built had been prepared at the quarry, so that there was no noise made by hammers, axes, or any other iron tools as the Temple was being built.
8. The entrance to the lowest storey of the annexe was on the south side of the Temple, with stairs leading up to the second and third storeys.
9. So King Solomon finished building the Temple. He put in a ceiling made of beams and boards of cedar.
24-26. Both were of the same size and shape. Each had two wings, each wing 2.2 metres long, so that the distance from one wing tip to the other was 4.4 metres.
27. They were placed side by side in the Most Holy Place, so that two of their outstretched wings touched each other in the middle of the room, and the other two wings touched the walls.
28. The two winged creatures were covered with gold.
29. The walls of the main room and of the inner room were all decorated with carved figures of winged creatures, palm trees, and flowers.
30. Even the floor was covered with gold.
31. A double door made of olive wood was set in place at the entrance of the Most Holy Place; the top of the doorway was a pointed arch.
32. The doors were decorated with carved figures of winged creatures, palm trees, and flowers. The doors, the winged creatures, and the palm trees were covered with gold.
33. For the entrance to the main room a rectangular door-frame of olive wood was made.