17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.
18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with wild gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen.
19 And he prepared the oracle in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold and likewise covered the altar which was of cedar.
21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold, and he closed the door of the oracle with chains of gold, and he overlaid it with gold.
22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house; also the whole altar that was in front of the oracle he overlaid with gold.
23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive wood, each ten cubits high.