16. He lined twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls, with boards of cedar, and he even lined them within, even the inner sanctuary and the Most Holy Place.
17. The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
18. The cedar of the house within had carvings of gourds and open flowers. All was cedar. There was no stone seen.
19. He prepared the inner sanctuary in the inner part of the house in order to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
20. The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the altar of cedar.
21. So Solomon overlaid the interior of the house with pure gold, and he made a partition with gold chains in front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.
22. He overlaid the whole house with gold as well as the whole altar that was by the inner sanctuary.