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All the doors were rectangular and arranged symmetrically.
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He built a colonnaded courtyard seventy-five feet long and forty-five wide. It had a roofed porch at the front with ample eaves.
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He built a court room, the Hall of Justice, where he would decide judicial matters, and paneled it with cedar.
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He built his personal residence behind the Hall on a similar plan. Solomon also built another one just like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married.
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No expense was spared - everything here, inside and out, from foundation to roof was constructed using high-quality stone, accurately cut and shaped and polished.
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The foundation stones were huge, ranging in size from twelve to fifteen feet, and of the very best quality.
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The finest stone was used above the foundation, shaped to size and trimmed with cedar.
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The courtyard was enclosed with a wall made of three layers of stone and topped with cedar timbers, just like the one in the porch of The Temple of God.
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King Solomon sent to Tyre and asked Hiram (not the king; another Hiram) to come.
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Hiram's mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali. His father was a Tyrian and a master worker in bronze. Hiram was a real artist - he could do anything with bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all the bronze work.
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First he cast two pillars in bronze, each twenty-seven feet tall and eighteen feet in circumference.