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The porch in front of the temple's main hall was thirty feet long. It ran across the whole width of the temple and extended fifteen feet in front of the temple.
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He made recessed and latticed windows for the temple
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and built side rooms against the temple walls around both the main hall and the most holy place.
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The lower walls were seven and a half feet wide. At the second floor the walls were nine feet wide, and at the third floor they were ten and a half feet wide. He made niches around the outside of the temple so the beams wouldn't be inserted into the temple walls.
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When the temple was built, they did all the stonecutting at the quarry. No hammers, axes, or any iron tools were heard in the temple during its construction.
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The door to the stairs was at the south side of the temple. Winding stairs went up to the second floor and from there to the third floor.
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He completed the temple with a roof of cedar beams and cross-planks.
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Then he built the side rooms all around the temple. They were seven and a half feet high. He attached them to the temple with cedarwood.
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The LORD's word came to Solomon,
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Regarding this temple that you are building: If you follow my laws, enact my regulations, and keep all my commands faithfully, then I will fulfill for you my promise that I made to your father David.
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I will live among the Israelites. I won't abandon my people Israel.