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¹ And Solomon built a house for himself in thirteen years. ² And he built the house with the wood of Libanus; its length was a hundred cubits, and its breadth was fifty cubits, and its height was of thirty cubits, and it was made with three rows of cedar pillars, and the pillars had side-pieces of cedar. ³ And he formed the house with chambers above on the sides of the pillars, and the number of the pillars was each row forty and five, ⁴ and there were three chambers, and space against space in three rows. ⁵ And all the doors and spaces formed like chambers were square, and from door to door was a correspondence in three rows. ⁶ And he made the porch of the pillars, they were fifty cubits long and fifty broad, the porch joining them in front; and the other pillars and the thick beam were in front of the house by the porches. ⁷ And there was the Porch of seats where he would judge, the porch of judgement. ⁸ And their house where he would dwell, had one court communicating with these according to this work; and he built the house for the daughter of Pharao whom Solomon had taken, according to this porch. ⁹ All these were of costly stones, sculptured at intervals within even from the foundation even to the top, and outward to the great court, ¹⁰ founded with large costly stones, stones of ten cubits and eight cubits long. ¹¹ And above with costly stones, according to the measure of hewn stones, and with cedars. ¹² There were three rows of hewn stones round about the great hall, and a row of sculptured cedar: and Solomon finished all his house.