SOLOMON made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into David's city, until he had finished building his own house, The LORD's house, and the wall around Jerusalem.

1. SOLOMON was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

2. For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.

3. It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars, fifteen in a row.

4. There were beams in three rows, and window was facing window in three ranks.

5. All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was facing window in three ranks.

6. He made the porch of pillars. Its length was fifty cubits and its width thirty cubits; with a porch before them, and pillars and a threshold before them.

7. He made the porch of the throne where he was to judge, even the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.

8. His house where he was to dwell, the other court within the porch, was of the like work. He made also a house for Pharaoh's daughter (whom SOLOMON had taken as wife), like this porch.

At the end of twenty years, in which SOLOMON had built the two houses, The LORD's house and the king's house

Thus SOLOMON finished The LORD's house and the king's house; and he successfully completed all that came into SOLOMON's heart to make in The LORD's house and in his own house.

At the end of twenty years, in which SOLOMON had built The LORD's house and his own house,

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.