1 Solomon's palace took thirteen years to build.
2-3 Forest Hall was the largest room in the palace. It was forty-four metres long, twenty-two metres wide, and thirteen and a half metres high, and was lined with cedar from Lebanon. It had four rows of cedar pillars, fifteen in a row, and they held up forty-five cedar beams. The ceiling was covered with cedar.
4 Three rows of windows on each side faced each other,
5 and there were three doors on each side near the front of the hall.