⁸ Hiram sent word to Solomon, “I have heard the message that you have sent to me; I will fulfill all your needs in the matter of cedar and cypress timber.

⁵ The great hall he lined with cypress, covered it with fine gold, and made palms and chains on it.^(A)

³⁴ and two doors of cypress wood; the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.^(A)

¹⁵ He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the rafters of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

⁵ David and all the house of Israel were dancing before the Lord with all their might, with songs^[a] and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.^(A)