1 Solomon's workers started building the temple during Ziv, the second month of the year. It had been 4 years since Solomon became king of Israel, and 480 years since the people of Israel left Egypt.
2 The inside of the Lord's temple was 27 meters long, 9 meters wide, and 13.5 meters high.
3 A four-and-a-half-meter porch went all the way across the front of the temple.
4 The windows were narrow on the outside but wide on the inside.