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1 Kings 6:3 (KJV)
And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
1 Kings 6:5 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And against the wall of the house he built a side-structure round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the sanctuary; and he made side-chambers round about;
[FONT="]The lowest floor of the annex was eight-and-three-quarters feet wide, the middle floor ten-and-a-half feet wide and the third floor twelve-and-a-quarter feet wide; for he had made the outer part of the wall of the house step-shaped, so that the beams of the annex would not have to be attached to the house walls.
[FONT="][h=1](1 Kings 6:7): ...English Standard Version (ESV)[/h][FONT="]7 When the house was built, it was with stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.[/FONT]
8 The entrance for the lowest story was on the south side of the house, and one went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle story to the third.
[FONT="]“As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfill through you the promise I gave to David your father.[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT]
[FONT="][h=1](1 Kings 6:13): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT="]13 I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel.”[/FONT]
1 Kings 6:15 (ESV)
He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
[FONT="]He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.[/FONT][FONT="] [/FONT]
[FONT="]The inside of the temple was cedar,[/FONT][FONT="][/FONT][FONT="] carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.[/FONT]
1 Kings 6:20 (NIV)
The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
[h=1](1 Kings 6:21): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)[/h][FONT="]21 So Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold. And he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.[/FONT]
(1 Kings 6:22): ...New American Standard Bible (NASB)
22 He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar which was by the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.