9. So he built the temple and completed it, roofing it with beams and cedar planks.
10. And he built the side rooms all along the temple. The height of each was five cubits, and they were attached to the temple by beams of cedar.
11. The word of the Lord came to Solomon:
12. ‘As for this temple you are building, if you follow my decrees, observe my laws and keep all my commands and obey them, I will fulfil through you the promise I gave to David your father.
13. And I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.’
14. So Solomon built the temple and completed it.
15. He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, panelling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.
16. He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.
17. The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.
18. The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.