Solomon built up Gezer, lower Beth Horon,

His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth Horon, as well as Uzzen Sheerah),

You saw the many breaks in the walls of the city of David; you stored up water in the lower pool.

The pavement was beside the gates, corresponding to the length of the gates; this was the lower pavement.

Now the upper chambers were narrower, because the galleries took more space from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building.

It then descended westward to Japhletite territory, as far as the territory of lower Beth Horon and Gezer, and ended at the sea.

He made upper Beth Horon and lower Beth Horon fortified cities with walls and barred gates,

Then he measured the width from before the lower gate to the front of the exterior of the inner court as 175 feet on the east and on the north.

For they were in three stories and had no pillars like the pillars of the courts; therefore the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and upper ones.

It then crossed from there to Luz, to the slope of Luz to the south (that is, Bethel), and descended to Ataroth Addar located on the hill that is south of lower Beth Horon.

The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet wide, and the third floor ten and a half feet wide. He made ledges on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.

The side chambers surrounding the temple were wider at each successive story; for the structure surrounding the temple went up story by story all around the temple. For this reason the width of the temple increased as it went up, and one went up from the lowest story to the highest by the way of the middle story.

From the base of the ground to the lower edge is 3½ feet, and the width 1¾ feet; and from the smaller ledge to the larger edge, 7 feet, and the width 1¾ feet;