1 Kings 6:5-7

Lexham English Bible

⁵ and he built a structure against the wall of the temple^[a] running all along the walls of the house, for the outer sanctuary and for the inner sanctuary, and made side rooms all around. ⁶ The lower structure was five cubits in its width and the middle was six cubits in its width and the third was seven cubits in its width, for he made niches for the temple^[b] all around to the outside, so that beams would not attach to the walls of the temple.^{[c] 7} Now while the temple^[d] was being built, it was built with stones finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or stone shaping tool or any instrument of iron was heard in the temple^[e] as it was being built.