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.
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.
23. Solomon had two statues of winged creatures made from olive wood to put in the most holy place. Each creature was four and a half metres tall
24-26. and four and a half metres across. They had two wings, and the wings were just over two metres long.
27. Solomon put them next to each other in the most holy place. Their wings were spread out and reached across the room.
28. The creatures were also covered with gold.
29. The walls of the two rooms were decorated with carvings of palm trees, flowers, and winged creatures.
30. Even the floor was covered with gold.
31-32. The two doors to the most holy place were made out of olive wood and were decorated with carvings of palm trees, flowers, and winged creatures. The doors and the carvings were covered with gold. The door frame came to a point at the top.
33-34. The two doors to the main room of the temple were made out of pine, and each one had two sections so they could fold open. The door frame was shaped like a rectangle and was made out of olive wood.
35. The doors were covered with gold and were decorated with carvings of palm trees, flowers, and winged creatures.
36. The inner courtyard of the temple had walls made out of three layers of cut stones with one layer of cedar beams.
37. Work began on the temple during Ziv, the second month of the year, four years after Solomon became king of Israel.
38. Seven years later the workers finished building it during Bul, the eighth month of the year. It was built exactly as it had been planned.