3 The inside of the temple was twenty-seven metres long and nine metres wide, according to the older standards.
4 Across the front of the temple was a porch nine metres wide and nine metres high. The inside walls of the porch were covered with pure gold.
5 Solomon had the inside walls of the temple's main room panelled first with pine and then with a layer of gold, and he had them decorated with carvings of palm trees and designs that looked like chains.
6 He used precious stones to decorate the temple, and he used gold imported from Parvaim
7 to decorate the ceiling beams, the doors, the door frames, and the walls. Solomon also made the workers carve designs of winged creatures into the walls.
8 The most holy place was nine metres square, and its walls were covered with over twenty tonnes of fine gold.
9 Five hundred and seventy grammes of gold was used to cover the heads of the nails. The walls of the small storage rooms were also covered with gold.