16. He put up a wall 30 feet from the back of the temple. He made it with cedar boards from floor to ceiling. That formed a room inside the temple. It was the Most Holy Room.
17. The main hall in front of the room was 60 feet long.
18. The inside of the temple was covered with cedar wood. Gourds and open flowers were carved on the wood. Everything was cedar. There wasn't any stone showing anywhere.
19. Solomon prepared the Most Holy Room inside the temple. That's where the ark of the covenant of the Lord would be placed.
20. The Most Holy Room was 30 feet long. It was 30 feet wide. And it was 30 feet high. Solomon covered the inside of it with pure gold. He prepared the cedar altar for burning incense. He covered it with gold.
21. Solomon covered the inside of the main hall with pure gold. He placed gold chains across the front of the Most Holy Room. That room was covered with gold.
22. So Solomon covered the inside of the whole temple with gold. He also covered the altar for burning incense with gold. It was right in front of the Most Holy Room.
23. For the Most Holy Room Solomon made a pair of cherubim. He made them out of olive wood. Each cherub was 15 feet high.
24. One wing of the first cherub was seven and a half feet long. The other wing was also seven and a half feet long. So the wings measured 15 feet from tip to tip.
25. The second cherub's wings also measured 15 feet from tip to tip. The two cherubim had the same size and shape.
26. Each cherub was 15 feet high.
27. Solomon placed the cherubim inside the Most Holy Room in the temple. Their wings were spread out. The wing tip of one cherub touched one wall. The wing tip of the other touched the other wall. The tips of their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.
28. Solomon covered the cherubim with gold.
29. On the walls that were all around the temple he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. He carved them on the walls of the Most Holy Room and the main hall.
30. He also covered the floors of those two rooms with gold.
31. For the entrance to the Most Holy Room he made two doors out of olive wood. Each doorpost had five sides.
32. On the two olive wood doors he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers. He covered the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.
33. In the same way he made olive wood doorposts for the entrance to the main hall. Each doorpost had four sides.
34. He also made two pine doors. Each door had two parts. They turned in bases that were shaped like cups.