18. The cedar of the house within had carvings of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar. There was no stone seen.
19. He prepared the inner sanctuary in the inner part of the house in order to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
20. The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the altar of cedar.
21. So Solomon overlaid the interior of the house with pure gold, and he made a partition with gold chains in front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.
22. He overlaid the whole house with gold as well as the whole altar that was by the inner sanctuary.
23. Within the inner sanctuary, he made two cherubim from olive wood, each ten cubits high.
24. One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing was also five cubits. From the furthest part of the one wing to the furthest part of the other was ten cubits.