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"He built the inner court with three courses of dressed stone and one course of lengths of cedar. (1 Kings 6:36) Our only source of information concerning the Temple of Solomon is the detailed description found in the Bible, 1 Kings 6, 7 and 8. The biblical description places the Temple of Solomon firmly within the context of known examples of temples from Canaan and Syria of the same period. King Solomon commissioned the Phoenicians to carry out the construction, so most of the building techniques, architectural and decorative elements were executed in the Phoenician style.