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.