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And Solomon built his own house in thirteen years, and brought it to perfection.
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He built also the house of the forest of Libanus; the length of it was a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty cubits, and the height thirty cubits: and four galleries between pillars of cedar: for he had cut cedar trees into pillars.
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And he covered the whole vault with boards of cedar, and it was held up with five and forty pillars. And one row had fifteen pillars,
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Set one against another,
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And looking one upon another, with equal space between the pillars, and over the pillars were square beams in all things equal.
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And he made a porch of pillars of fifty cubits in length, and thirty cubits in breadth: and another porch before the greater porch, and pillars, and chapiters upon the pillars.
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He made also the porch of the throne wherein is the seat of judgment; and covered it with cedar wood from the floor to the top.
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And in the midst of the porch, was a small house, where he sat in judgment of the like work. He made also a house for the daughter of Pharao (whom Solomon had taken to wife) of the same work, as this porch;
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All of costly stones, which were sawed by a certain rule and measure, both within and without: from the foundation to the top of the walls, and without, unto the great court.