1 Kings 6:17-38 ▼

17 And forty by the cubit was the sanctuary; it is the house before it.

18 And the cedar for the house inside was carved with gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; not a stone was seen.

19 And the inner sanctuary in the midst of the house on the inside, he prepared to set there the ark of the covenant of YHWH.

20 And before the face of the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. And He overlaid it with pure gold, and he overlaid the altar of cedar.

21 And Solomon overlaid the house inside with pure gold, and He stretched gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.

22 And all the house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house. And all the altar that was for the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.

23 And he made inside the inner sanctuary two cherubim of olive wood, ten cubits high.

24 And was five cubits the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub—ten cubits from the ends of one wing and to the ends of the other.

25 And ten by the cubit was the second cherub, of one size and one shape were the two cherubim.

26 The height of the one cherub was ten by the cubit, and so the second cherub.

27 And he set the cherubim in the midst of the inner room, and they stretched out the wings of the cherubim so that the wing of the one touched one wall, and the wing of the second cherub touched the second wall, and their wings in the middle of the room touched wing against wing.

28 And he overlaid the cherubim with gold.

29 And all the walls of the house all around he carved with openings of carvings of cherubim, and palm trees, and open flowers, from inside and to the outside.

30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, for inside and for the outside.

31 And for the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood. The lintel and doorposts were five-sided.

32 And the two doors were of olive wood, and he carved on them figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and he overlaid them with gold, and he beat out the gold on the cherubim, and on the palm trees.

33 And also he made for the door of the sanctuary doorposts of olive wood with four sides.

34 And the two doors were of cypress wood, two panels of the one door were folding, and two panels of the second door were folding.

35 And he carved cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold applied evenly on the carved work.

36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewn stone, and a row of cut beams of cedar.

37 In the fourth year of the house of YHWH the foundation was laid, in the month of Ziv.

38 And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, that is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its details and according to all its plans. And he built it seven years.