7. The house was built of stone prepared at the quarry, so that neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was being built.
8. The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house, and it had winding stairs into the middle chamber and out of the middle into the third.
9. So he built the house and finished it and covered it with beams and boards of cedar.
10. Then he built chambers against the whole house, five cubits high, and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
11. Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,
12. “Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My judgments and keep all My commandments and walk in them, then I will carry out My word with you, which I spoke to David your father,
13. and I will dwell among the people of Israel and will not forsake My people Israel.”
14. So Solomon built the house and finished it.
15. He built the interior walls of the house with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
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.