1 Kings 6:6-8

New Living Translation

⁶ The complex was three stories high, the bottom floor being 7 1⁄2 feet wide, the second floor 9 feet wide, and the top floor 10 1⁄2 feet wide.^[a] The rooms were connected to the walls of the Temple by beams resting on ledges built out from the wall. So the beams were not inserted into the walls themselves.

⁷ The stones used in the construction of the Temple were finished at the quarry, so there was no sound of hammer, ax, or any other iron tool at the building site.

⁸ The entrance to the bottom floor^[b] was on the south side of the Temple. There were winding stairs going up to the second floor, and another flight of stairs between the second and third floors.