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But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
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He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length [was] a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its hight thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
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And [it was] covered with cedar above upon the beams, that [lay] on forty-five pillars, fifteen [in] a row.
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And [there were] windows in three rows, and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.
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And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the windows: and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.
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And he made a porch of pillars; its length [was] fifty cubits, and its breadth thirty cubits: and the porch [was] before them: and the [other] pillars and the thick beams [were] before them.
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Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, [even] the porch of judgment: and [it was] covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
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And his house where he dwelt [had] another court within the porch, [which] was of the like work. Solomon made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married, like to this porch.
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All these [were of] costly stones, according to the measures of hewn stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation to the coping, and [so] on the outside towards the great court.
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And the foundation [was of] costly stones, even great stones; stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
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And above [were] costly stones, after the measures of hewn stones, and cedars.