1 Kings 6:13-28

¹³I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”

¹⁴So Solomon built the house and finished it.

¹⁵He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood. He covered the floor of the house with cypress boards.

¹⁶He built twenty cubits of the back part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling. He built this within, for an inner sanctuary, even for the most holy place.

¹⁷In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long.

¹⁸There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.

¹⁹He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.

²⁰Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height. He overlaid it with pure gold. He covered the altar with cedar.

²¹So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.

²²He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.

²³In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.

²⁴Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits was the length of the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits.

²⁵The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

²⁶One cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the other cherub.

²⁷He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were stretched out, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the middle of the house.

²⁸He overlaid the cherubim with gold.