17. The main room, the room in front of the Most Holy Place, was 60 feet long.
18. Inside the Temple was cedar. It was carved with pictures of flowers and plants. Everything inside was covered with cedar. So a person could not see the stones of the wall.
19. He prepared the inner room at the back of the Temple to keep the Ark of the Covenant with the Lord.
20. This inner room was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide and 30 feet high. Solomon covered this room with pure gold. He built an altar of cedar and covered it also.
21. He covered the inside of the Temple with pure gold. And he placed gold chains across the front of the inner room. It was covered with gold.
22. So all the inside of the Temple was covered with gold. Also the altar in the Most Holy Place was covered with gold.
23. Solomon made two creatures with wings from olive wood. Each creature was 15 feet tall. They were put in the Most Holy Place.
24. Each creature had two wings. Each wing was 7½ feet long. So it was 15 feet from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing.
25. The creatures were the same size and shape.
26. And each was 15 feet tall.
27. These creatures were put beside each other in the Most Holy Place. Their wings were spread out. So one creature’s wing touched one wall. The other creature’s wing touched the other wall. And their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.
28. The two creatures were covered with gold.