1 Kings 6:17-33

¹⁷And forty by the cubit was the house, it is the temple before it.

¹⁸And the cedar for the house within is carvings of knobs and openings of flowers; the whole is cedar, there is not a stone seen.

¹⁹And the oracle in the midst of the house within he hath prepared, to put there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

²⁰And before the oracle is twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits is its height; and he overlayeth it with gold refined, and overlayeth the altar with cedar.

²¹And Solomon overlayeth the house within with gold refined, and causeth it to pass over in chains of gold before the oracle, and overlayeth it with gold.

²²And the whole of the house he hath overlaid with gold, till the completion of all the house; and the whole of the altar that the oracle hath, he hath overlaid with gold.

²³And he maketh within the oracle two cherubs, of the oil-tree, ten cubits is their height;

²⁴and five cubits is the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub, ten cubits from the ends of its wings even unto the ends of its wings;

²⁵and ten by the cubit is the second cherub, one measure and one form are to the two cherubs,

²⁶the height of the one cherub is ten by the cubit, and so is the second cherub;

²⁷and he setteth the cherubs in the midst of the inner house, and they spread out the wings of the cherubs, and a wing of the one cometh against the wall, and a wing of the second cherub is coming against the second wall, and their wings are unto the midst of the house, coming wing against wing;

²⁸and he overlayeth the cherubs with gold,

²⁹and all the walls of the house round about he hath carved with openings of carvings, cherubs, and palm trees, and openings of flowers, within and without.

³⁰And the floor of the house he hath overlaid with gold, within and without;

³¹as to the opening of the oracle, he made doors of the oil-tree; the lintel, side-posts, a fifth.

³²And the two doors are of the oil-tree, and he hath carved upon them carvings of cherubs, and palm-trees, and openings of flowers, and overlaid with gold, and he causeth the gold to go down on the cherubs and on the palm-trees.

³³And so he hath made for the opening of the temple, side-posts of the oil-tree, from the fourth.