8. The section of the palace where Solomon lived was behind Justice Hall and looked exactly like it. He had a similar place built for his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt.
9. From the foundation all the way to the top, these buildings and the courtyard were made out of the best stones carefully cut to size, then smoothed on every side with saws.
10. The foundation stones were huge, good stones—some of them four and a half metres long and others three and a half metres long.
11. The cedar beams and other stones that had been cut to size were on top of these foundation stones.
12. The walls around the palace courtyard were made out of three layers of cut stones with one layer of cedar beams, just like the front porch and the inner courtyard of the temple.
15. Hiram made two bronze columns eight metres tall and almost two metres across.
16. For the top of each column, he also made a bronze cap just over two metres high.