1 Kings 6:16-37

¹⁶He sectioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the Temple with boards of cedar from floor to ceiling, making an inner sanctuary as the Most Holy Place.

¹⁷The main Temple in front of this room measured forty cubits long.

¹⁸The cedar panels inside the Temple were decorated with carvings of gourds and open flowers. Everything was lined with cedar—none of the stone was visible.

¹⁹He also had the inner sanctuary made within the Temple where the Ark of the Lord's Agreement would be placed.

²⁰The inner sanctuary measured twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He had the interior covered with a coating with pure gold, as well as the altar of cedar.

²¹Solomon had the whole of the inside of the Temple covered with pure gold, He had gold chains stretched across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was also covered with gold.

²²He covered the whole inside of the Temple with a coating of gold until it was all finished. He also covered with gold the entire altar for the inner sanctuary.

²³He had two cherubim made out of olive wood for the inner sanctuary, each one ten cubits tall.

²⁴Both wings of the cherub measured five cubits, making a total wingspan of ten cubits.

²⁵The other cherub was also ten cubits tall, since they were identical both in size and shape.

²⁶Both cherubs were ten cubits tall.

²⁷He had the cherubim placed inside the inner sanctuary of the Temple. Since their wings were fully spread, a wing of the first cherub touched one wall, a wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the Temple their wings touched.

²⁸The cherubim were also covered with a gold coating.

²⁹He had all the Temple walls, both the inner and outer sanctuaries, carved with designs of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

³⁰He also had the floor of the Temple floor covered with gold, both the inner and outer sanctuaries.

³¹He had doors of olive wood made for the entrance to the inner sanctuary, together with a lintel and doorposts that had five sides.

³²These olive wood double doors had carved into them designs of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers. The cherubim and palm trees carvings were covered with beaten gold.

³³Similarly he had four-sided doorposts of olive wood made for the entrance to the sanctuary.

³⁴Its doors were made of cypress wood, each with two hinged panels.

³⁵He had them carved with designs of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and covered them with gold beaten evenly over the carvings.

³⁶Solomon had the inner courtyard built with three courses of dressed stone and one of cedar beams.

³⁷The foundation of the Lord's Temple was laid in the fourth year of Solomon's reign, in the month of Ziv.