18. The cedar of the interior of the House was carved as gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was visible.
19. He prepared an inner Sanctuary within the House, to set there the ark of the covenant of Adonai.
20. The inner Sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in breadth and twenty cubits in height. He overlaid it with pure gold, and overlaid the cedar altar.
21. So Solomon overlaid the interior of the House with pure gold; and he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner Sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
22. So the entire House he overlaid with gold until the entire House was finished; even the entire altar by the inner Sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
23. In the inner Sanctuary he made two cheruvim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
24. The length of one wing of the cheruv was five cubits and the length of the other wing of the cheruv was five cubits—ten cubits from the end of one wing to the end of the other,
25. and the other cheruv was also ten cubits. Both cheruvim were the same in measure and form:
26. the height of the one cheruv was ten cubits and so the other cheruv.
27. Then he placed the cheruvim inside the inner House. When the wings of the cheruvim extended, the wing of the one touched one wall while the wing of the other cheruv touched the other wall, while their wings in the center of the House touched one another.
28. He also overlaid the cheruvim with gold.
29. Then he carved all the walls surrounding the House with carved engravings of cheruvim, palm trees and open flowers, in both the inner and outer rooms,
30. and he also covered the floor of both the inner and the outer rooms of the House with gold.
31. For the entrance of the inner Sanctuary he made doors of olive wood, the frame of the doorposts having five angles.
32. As for the double doors of olive wood, he carved on them carvings of cheruvim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold. He beat out gold over the cheruvim and over the palm trees.
33. He also made for the Temple entrance four-sided doorposts of olive wood
34. and double doors of cypress wood. The two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.