8. He made the most holy place. It was as long as the temple was wide, 30 feet long. It was also 30 feet wide. He overlaid it with 45,000 pounds of fine gold.
9. The gold nails weighed 20 ounces. He also overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
10. In the most holy place he made two sculptured angels and covered them with gold.
11. The combined length of the angels’ wings was 30 feet. A wing of one of the angels was 7½ feet long and touched the wall of the building. Its other wing was 7½ feet long and touched one wing of the other.
12. The wing of the other one of the angels was 7½ feet long and touched the other wall of the building. Its other wing was 7½ feet long and touched the wing of the first. So the angels’ combined wingspan was 30 feet.
13. They stood on their feet and faced the main hall.
14. Solomon made the canopy of violet, purple, and dark red cloth and of linen and decorated it with angels.
15. He made two pillars for the front of the temple. They were 53 feet long, and the capital on each pillar was 7½ feet ⌊high⌋.
16. He made chains for the inner room and ⌊also⌋ put them on the capitals. He made 100 pomegranates and put them on the chains.
17. He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left. He named the one on the right Jachin [He Establishes] and the one on the left Boaz [In Him Is Strength].