9. Solomon finished building the main part of the Temple and then covered it inside with cedar boards.
10. Then he finished building the rooms around the Temple. Each story was 5 cubits tall. The cedar beams in these rooms rested on a ledge of the Temple wall.
11. The Lord said to Solomon,
12. “If you obey all my laws and commands, I will do for you what I promised your father David.
13. I will live among the children of Israel in this Temple that you are building, and I will never leave the people of Israel.”
14. When Solomon finished the stonework on the Temple,