1 Kings 6:8-36

⁸The door for the middle gallery sidechamber was in the right side of the house: and with winding stairs they went up into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third.

⁹So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with hollow tiles, and with boards of cedar.

¹⁰And he built the gallery against all the house, each five cubits in height; and it was fastened on to the house with timber of cedar.

¹¹And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

¹²This house which thou art building—if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my ordinances, and keep all my commandments to walk in them: then will I perform my word with thee, which I have spoken unto David thy father.

¹³And I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel.

¹⁴So did Solomon build the house, and finish it.

¹⁵And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to where the walls touched the ceiling did he overlay it on the inside with wood; and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of fir.

¹⁶And he built the twenty cubits on the lower side of the house with boards of cedar, from the floor to the battlements; and he built it within, for the debir, for the holy of holies.

¹⁷And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

¹⁸And the cedar on the house within was carved with colocynths and opening flowers; all was cedar, no stone was seen.

¹⁹And the debir in the house within did he prepare, to set therein the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

²⁰And the interior of the debir was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits was its height: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he overlaid the altar with cedar-wood.

²¹And Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he barred by means of chains of gold the front of the debir; and he overlaid it with gold.

²²And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that was before the debir did he overlay with gold.

²³And within the debir he made two cherubims of oleaster-wood, each ten cubits high.

²⁴And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: there were ten cubits from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other.

²⁵And the other cherub was also ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

²⁶The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so that of the other cherub.

²⁷And he set the cherubim within the innermost part of the house: and they spread forth the wings of the cherubim, 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 toward the middle of the house touched one another.

²⁸And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

²⁹And on all the wall of the house round about he carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and opening flowers, in the debir and in the temple.

³⁰And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold for the debir and for the temple.

³¹And for the entrance of the debir he made doors of oleaster-wood: the lintel with the side-posts forming five sides.

³²And also upon the two doors of oleaster-wood he carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and opening flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread the gold, by beating, upon the cherubim, and upon the palm-trees.

³³So also made he for the entrance of the temple door-posts of oleaster-wood in shape of a square;

³⁴And two doors of fir-wood: the one door having two leaves which were folding, and the other door having two leaves which were folding.

³⁵And he carved thereon cherubim, and palm-trees and opening flowers: and he overlaid them with gold fitting upon the carved work.

³⁶And he built the inner court of three rows of hewn stone, and one row of cedar beams.