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There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.
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And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.
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And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.
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Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.
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And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.
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All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.
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And the base was of great masses of highly priced stone, some ten cubits and some eight cubits square.
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Overhead were highly priced stones cut to measure, and cedar-wood.
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The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.
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Then King Solomon sent and got Hiram from Tyre.
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He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in brass; he was full of wisdom and knowledge and an expert worker in brass. He came to King Solomon and did all his work for him.