6. The king decorated the Temple with beautiful precious stones and with gold imported from the land of Parvaim.
7. He used the gold to overlay the temple walls, the rafters, the thresholds, and the doors. On the walls the workers carved designs of winged creatures.
8. The inner room, called the Most Holy Place, was nine metres long and nine metres wide, which was the full width of the Temple. Over twenty tonnes of gold were used to cover the walls of the Most Holy Place;
9. 570 grammes of gold were used for making nails, and the walls of the upper rooms were also covered with gold.
10. The king also ordered his workers to make two winged creatures out of metal, cover them with gold, and place them in the Most Holy Place,
11-13. where they stood side by side facing the entrance. Each had two wings, each wing 2.2 metres long, which were spread out so that they touched each other in the centre of the room and reached the wall on either side of the room, stretching across the full width of about nine metres.
14. A curtain for the Most Holy Place was made of linen and of other material, which was dyed blue, purple, and red, with designs of the winged creatures worked into it.