1 Kings 6:5-10

Legacy Standard Bible

^5 (A)And he built, against the wall of the house, stories encompassing the walls of the house around both the nave and the ^(B)inner sanctuary; thus he made ^(C)side chambers all around. ⁶ The lowest story was five cubits wide, and the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for on the outside he ^[a]made offsets in the wall of the house all around in order that the beams would not ^[b]be inserted in the walls of the house.

^7 (D)The house, while it was being built, was built of stone ^[c]prepared at the quarry, and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any iron tool heard in the house while it was being built.

⁸ The doorway for the ^[d]lowest side chamber was on the right side of the house; and they would go up by winding stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third. ⁹ So ^(E)he built the house and completed it; and he paneled the house with beams and ^[e]planks of cedar. ¹⁰ He also built the stories against the whole house, each five ^[f]cubits high; and they ^[g]were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.