17. In front of the temple sanctuary was forty cubits.
18. There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers. All was cedar. No stone was visible.
19. He prepared an inner sanctuary in the middle of the house within, to set the ark of Yahweh’s covenant there.
20. Within the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold; and he covered the altar with cedar.
21. So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold. He drew chains of gold across before the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.
22. He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. He also overlaid the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary with gold.
23. In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
24. Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub. From the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was ten cubits.
25. The other cherub was ten cubits. Both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.
26. One cherub was ten cubits high, and so was the other cherub.
27. He set the cherubim within the inner house. The wings of the cherubim were stretched out, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the middle of the house.
28. He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29. He carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inside and outside.
30. He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inside and outside.
31. For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.