8. The door at the side of the middle section was to the right of the house. And they would ascend along winding stairs to the middle level, and from the middle level to the third level.
9. And he built the house, and finished it. And he overlaid the house with boards of cedar.
10. And he built a paneling over the entire house, five cubits in height, and he covered the house with cedar wood.
11. And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying:
12. "Concerning this house, which you are building: if you will walk in my precepts, and carry out my judgments, and keep all my commandments, advancing by them, I will confirm my word to you, which I spoke to your father David.
13. And I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel, and I will not forsake my people Israel."
14. And so, Solomon built the house, and finished it.
15. And he built the walls of the house, on the interior, with panels of cedar, from the floor of the house, to the top of the walls, and even to the ceiling. He covered it with cedar wood on the interior. And he overlaid the floor of the house with panels of spruce.
16. And he built panels of cedar, of twenty cubits, at the back part of the temple, from the floor even to the top. And he made the inner house of the oracle as the Holy of Holies.
17. And the temple itself, before the doors of the oracle, was forty cubits.
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.