17 The House, that is, the Sanctuary, was 40 cubits long in front of the inner Sanctuary.
18 The cedar of the interior of the House was carved as gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was visible.
19 He prepared an inner Sanctuary within the House, to set there the ark of the covenant of Adonai.
20 The inner Sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in breadth and twenty cubits in height. He overlaid it with pure gold, and overlaid the cedar altar.
21 So Solomon overlaid the interior of the House with pure gold; and he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner Sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
22 So the entire House he overlaid with gold until the entire House was finished; even the entire altar by the inner Sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
23 In the inner Sanctuary he made two cheruvim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.