1st Kings 6:18-23

¹⁸And all the house within was clothed with cedar, and had his smoothnesses, and his joinings made subtly, and engravings appearing above; all things were clothed with boards of cedar, and utterly a stone might not appear in the wall.

¹⁹And Solomon made God’s answering place in the midst of the house, in the inner part, that he should set or put there the ark of bond of peace of the Lord.

²⁰And God’s answering place had twenty cubits of length, and twenty cubits of breadth, and twenty cubits of height; and he covered, and clothed it with purest gold; but also he clothed the altar with cedar.

²¹Also he covered with purest gold the house before God’s answering place, or the oracle, and he fastened the plates with golden nails.

²²Nothing was in the temple that was not covered with gold; but also he covered with gold all the altar of God’s answering place.

²³And he made in God’s answering place two cherubims or cherubim of the trees of olives, of ten cubits of height;