He also made two gold rings for it under its border, on its two sides, on opposite sides, as places for poles to carry it with.

He put the poles into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. He made the altar hollow, out of boards.

So David and his men went on their way. But Shimei kept going along the side of the hill opposite him, yelling curses as he threw stones and dirt at them.

He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it.

The entrance to the bottom level of side rooms was on the south side of the temple; stairs went up to the middle floor and then on up to the third floor.

He built a wall 30 feet in from the rear of the temple as a partition for an inner sanctuary that would be the most holy place. He paneled the wall with cedar planks from the floor to the rafters.

He also made two doors out of wood from evergreens; each door had two folding leaves.

The roof above the beams supported by the pillars was also made of cedar; there were forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

Then he measured the wall of the temple as 10½ feet, and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, all around the temple.

There were entrances from the side chambers toward the open area, one entrance toward the north, and another entrance toward the south; the width of the open area was 8¾ feet all around.

You are to make two gold rings for it under its border, on its two flanks; you are to make them on its two sides. The rings will be places for poles to carry it with.

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.