2. The inside of the Lord's temple was twenty-seven metres long, nine metres wide, and thirteen and a half metres high.
3. A four and a half metre porch went all the way across the front of the temple.
4. The windows were narrow on the outside but wide on the inside.
7. Solomon did not want the noise of hammers and axes to be heard at the place where the temple was being built. So he made the workers shape the blocks of stone at the quarry.
8. The entrance to the bottom storage rooms was on the south side of the building, and stairs to the other rooms were also there.
9. The roof of the temple was made out of beams and cedar boards.The workers finished building the outside of the temple.
12-13. If you obey my commands and do what I say, I will keep the promise I made to your father David. I will live among my people Israel in this temple you are building, and I will not desert them.
14. So Solomon's workers finished building the temple.
15. The floor of the temple was made out of pine, and the walls were lined with cedar from floor to ceiling.
16. The most holy place was in the back of the temple, and it was nine metres square. Cedar boards standing from floor to ceiling separated it from the rest of the temple.
17. The temple's main room was eighteen metres long, and it was in front of the most holy place.
18. The inside walls were lined with cedar to hide the stones, and the cedar was decorated with carvings of gourds and flowers.
19. The sacred chest was kept in the most holy place.
20-22. This room was nine metres long, nine metres wide, and nine metres high, and it was lined with pure gold. There were also gold chains across the front of the most holy place. The inside of the temple, as well as the cedar altar in the most holy place, was covered with gold.
23. Solomon had two statues of winged creatures made from olive wood to put in the most holy place. Each creature was four and a half metres tall
24-26. and four and a half metres across. They had two wings, and the wings were just over two metres long.
27. Solomon put them next to each other in the most holy place. Their wings were spread out and reached across the room.
28. The creatures were also covered with gold.
29. The walls of the two rooms were decorated with carvings of palm trees, flowers, and winged creatures.