And when the house was built, it was built of stone perfect, before it was brought, so that there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

The door of the middle [a]chamber was in the right side of the house, and men went up with winding stairs into the middlemost, and out of the middlemost into the third.

So he built the [b]house and finished it, and ceiled the house, being vaulted with ceiling of cedar trees.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 6:8 Or, Gallery.
  2. 1 Kings 6:9 In Exodus it is called the Tabernacle: and the Temple is here called the Sanctuary, and the Oracle the most holy place.

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