[1] It took Solomon thirteen years, however, to complete the construction of his palace. [2] He built the Palace of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty wide and thirty high, with four rows of cedar columns supporting trimmed cedar beams. [3] It was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the columns—forty-five beams, fifteen to a row. [4] Its windows were placed high in sets of three, facing each other. [5] All the doorways had rectangular frames; they were in the front part in sets of three, facing each other. [6] He made a colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty wide. In front of it was a portico, and in front of that were pillars and an overhanging roof. [7] He built the throne hall, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge, and he covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling. [8] And the palace in which he was to live, set farther back, was similar in design. Solomon also made a palace like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter, whom he had married.
