1 Kings 6:5-7

International Standard Version

⁵ Against the wall of the Temple he built a series of rooms that encompassed the exterior of the Temple walls around the inner sanctuary. He built these side chambers all around the building.^{[a] 6} The lower structures were five cubits^[b] wide, the middle structures were six cubits^[c] wide and the third structures were seven cubits^[d] wide. Offsets were placed all around the Temple so that beams would not protrude through the walls of the Temple. ⁷ The Temple was constructed of stone precut at the quarry so that no hammer, axe, or any other iron implement would be heard in the Temple while it was being built.