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Solomon began to build the temple on the second day of the second month of the fourth year that he ruled Israel as king.[a]

The foundation for God's temple was 27 metres long and 9 metres wide. (They measured it in cubits.)

There was an entrance room at the front of the temple's big hall. It was as wide as the temple, 9 metres wide. It was 9 metres high.[b] Solomon's workers covered the inside of the entrance room with pure gold.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:2 The fourth year of King Solomon's rule was about 966 BC.
  2. 3:4 Or possibly 54 metres high.