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He built twenty cubits ... He built this room

Solomon would have commanded his workers to do the building. AT: "He commanded them to build twenty cubits ... He had them build this room" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)

He built twenty cubits

"He built a room twenty cubits long"

twenty cubits ... forty cubits

A cubit is 46 centimeters. AT: "9.2 meters ... 18.4 meters" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bdistance)

main hall

"main room"

gourds

a type of hard, round vegetable that grows on a vine on the ground

open flowers

"blooming flowers" or "flowers that were open"