18. And the entire house was clothed with cedar on the interior, having its turnings and junctures artfully wrought, with carvings projecting outward. Everything was clothed with panels of cedar. And no stone at all was able to be seen in the wall.
19. Now he made the oracle in the middle of the house, in the inner part, so that he might station the ark of the covenant of the Lord there.
20. And the oracle held twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in height. And he covered and clothed it with the purest gold. Then, too, he clothed the altar in cedar.
21. Also, the house before the oracle, he covered with the purest gold, and he fastened the plates with nails of gold.
22. And there was nothing in the temple that was not covered with gold. Moreover, the entire altar of the oracle he overlaid with gold.
23. And he made in the oracle two cherubim from wood of the olive tree, of ten cubits in height.
24. One wing of a cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of a cherub was five cubits, that is, having ten cubits from the summit of one wing even to the summit of the other wing.
25. Likewise, the second cherub was ten cubits. And the measure was equal and the work was one, in the two cherubim,
26. that is, one cherub had a height of ten cubits, and similarly the second cherub.
27. And he stationed the cherubim in the middle of the inner temple. And the cherubim extended their wings, and the wing of the one was touching the wall, and the wing of the second cherub was touching the other wall. But the other wings, in the middle of the temple, were touching each another.
28. He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29. And all the walls of the temple all around he engraved with diverse carvings and turnings. And he made in them cherubim, and palm trees, and various images, as if these were projecting out, and going forth from, the wall.