19. In the innermost part of the house he set up the inner sanctuary to house the ark of the Lord’s covenant.
20. In front of the inner sanctuary (it was twenty cubits long, twenty wide, and twenty high, and he covered it with pure gold), he made an altar of cedar.
21. Solomon covered the interior of the house with pure gold, and he drew golden chains across in front of the inner sanctuary, and covered it with gold.
22. He covered the whole house with gold, until the whole house was done, and the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he covered with gold.
23. In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, made of pine.
24. Each wing of a cherub was five cubits so that the span from wing tip to wing tip was ten cubits.
25. The second cherub was also ten cubits: the two cherubim were identical in size and shape;
26. the first cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the second.