11. And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:
12. "Concerning this house, which you are building: if you will walk in my precepts, and carry out my judgments, and keep all my commandments, advancing by them, I will confirm my word to you, which I spoke to your father David.
13. And I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel."
14. And so, Solomon built the house, and finished it.
15. And he built the walls of the house, on the interior, with panels of cedar, from the floor of the house, to the top of the walls, and even to the ceiling. He covered it with cedar wood on the interior. And he overlaid the floor of the house with panels of spruce.
16. And he built panels of cedar, of twenty cubits, at the back part of the temple, from the floor even to the top. And he made the inner house of the oracle as the Holy of Holies.
17. And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits.
18. And the entire house was clothed with cedar on the interior, having its turnings and junctures artfully wrought, with carvings projecting outward. Everything was clothed with panels of cedar. And no stone at all was able to be seen in the wall.
19. Now he made the oracle in the middle of the house, in the inner part, so that he might station the ark of the covenant of the Lord there.
20. And the oracle held twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered and clothed it with the purest gold. Then, too, he clothed the altar in cedar.
21. Also, the house before the oracle, he covered with the purest gold, and he fastened the plates with nails of gold.
22. And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold. Moreover, the entire altar of the oracle he overlaid with gold.
23. And he made in the oracle two cherubim from wood of the olive tree, of ten cubits in height.
24. One wing of a cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of a cherub was five cubits, that is, having ten cubits from the summit of one wing even to the summit of the other wing.
25. Likewise, the second cherub was ten cubits. And the measure was equal and the work was one, in the two cherubim,
26. that is, one cherub had a height of ten cubits, and similarly the second cherub.