It took Solomon thirteen years, however, to complete the
construction of his palace.12 He built the Palace2 of the Forest
of Lebanon3 a hundred cubits long, fifty wide and thirty high,a
with four rows of cedar columns supporting trimmed cedar beams.
It was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the
columns--forty-five beams, fifteen to a row. Its windows were
placed high in sets of three, facing each other. All the
doorways had rectangular frames; they were in the front part in
sets of three, facing each other.b6 He made a colonnade fifty
cubits long and thirty wide.c In front of it was a portico, and
in front of that were pillars and an overhanging roof. He built
the throne hall, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge,4
and he covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling.d58 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.69 All these structures, from the
outside to the great co