14 So Solomoni built the temple and completedj it. 15 He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling,k and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.l 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.m 17 The main hall in front of this room was forty cubitsi long. 18 The inside of the temple was cedar,n carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.

19 He prepared the inner sanctuaryo within the temple to set the ark of the covenantp of the Lord there. 20 The inner sanctuaryq was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.r 21 Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold. 22 So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.

23 For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubims out of olive wood, each ten cubits high. 24 One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits—ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip. 25 The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape. 26 The height of each cherub was ten cubits. 27 He placed the cherubimt inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room. 28 He overlaid the cherubim with gold.

29 On the wallsu all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim,v palm trees and open flowers. 30 He also covered the floors of both the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.

31 For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors out of olive wood that were one fifth of the width of the sanctuary. 32 And on the two olive-wood doorsw he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.