2 Chronicles 3:3-5

Contemporary English Version

³ The inside of the temple was 27 meters long and 9 meters wide, according to the older standards.^{[a] 4} Across the front of the temple was a porch 9 meters wide and 9 meters^[b] high. The inside walls of the porch were covered with pure gold.

⁵ Solomon had the inside walls of the temple's main room paneled 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.