- He made a colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty wide. In front of it was a portico, and in front of that were pillars and an overhanging roof.
- He built the throne hall, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge, and he covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling.
- And the palace in which he was to live, set farther back, was similar in design. Solomon also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married.
- All these structures, from the outside to the great courtyard and from foundation to eaves, were made of blocks of high-grade stone cut to size and trimmed with a saw on their inner and outer faces.
- The foundations were laid with large stones of good quality, some measuring ten cubits and some eight.
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- Then he made the hall of pillars; its length was 50 cubits and its width 30 cubits, and a porch was in front of them and pillars and a threshold in front of them.
- He made the hall of the throne where he was to judge, the hall of judgment, and it was paneled with cedar from floor to floor.
- His house where he was to live, the other court inward from the hall, was of the same workmanship. He also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had married.
- All these were of costly stones, of stone cut according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside; even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.
- The foundation was of costly stones, even large stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.
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