1 Kings 6:15-22

New International Version

¹⁵ He lined its interior walls with cedar boards, paneling them from the floor of the temple to the ceiling,^(A) and covered the floor of the temple with planks of juniper.^{(B) 16} He partitioned off twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.^{(C) 17} The main hall in front of this room was forty cubits^[a] long. ¹⁸ The inside of the temple was cedar,^(D) carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was to be seen.

¹⁹ He prepared the inner sanctuary^(E) within the temple to set the ark of the covenant^(F) of the Lord there. ²⁰ The inner sanctuary^(G) was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.^{(H) 21} Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold. ²² So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.