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The lowest chamber was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the temple, so that the support beams would not be fastened into the walls of the temple.
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And the temple, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
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The doorway for the middle story was on the right side of the temple. They went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.
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So he built the temple and finished it, and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar.
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And he built side chambers against the entire temple, each five cubits high; they were attached to the temple with cedar beams.
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Then the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:
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"Concerning this temple which you are building, if you walk in My statutes, execute My judgments, keep all My commandments, and walk in them, then I will perform My word with you, which I spoke to your father David.
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And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel."
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So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
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And he built the inside walls of the temple with cedar boards; from the floor of the temple to the ceiling he paneled the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the temple with planks of cypress.
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Then he built the twenty-cubit room at the rear of the temple, from floor to ceiling, with cedar boards; he built it inside as the inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.