⁵ He added a structure along the outer walls of the building, all the way around the three sides of the building. It was built against the walls of both the front room^[a] and the inner room^[b] of the sanctuary. In this structure he constructed three levels of storage rooms, all the way around the building. ⁶ The width of the rooms on the lowest story was seven and a half feet. The rooms of the middle story were nine feet wide, and the rooms of the third story were ten and a half feet wide, because he had built three receding ledges into the outside wall of the temple building all the way around, so that the floor beams of each story would not have to be inserted into the walls of the main building.

⁷ While the building was under construction, only stones that had been finished at the quarry were used in the building. No hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the building while it was under construction.