15. He built the walls within the temple with cedar planks, paneled from the floor to the ceiling. He overlaid the floor of the temple with pine planks.
16. At the back of the temple he built thirty feet of cedar panels from the floor to the ceiling. Solomon built the inner sanctuary, the most holy place.
17. In front of this, the main hall was sixty feet.
18. The cedar inside the temple was carved with gourds and blossoming flowers. The whole thing was cedar. No stone was seen.
19. He set up the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that he could put the chest containing the Lord’s covenant there.
20. The inner sanctuary was thirty feet in length, width, and height. Solomon overlaid it with pure gold and covered the altar with cedar.
21. Solomon covered the temple’s interior with pure gold. He placed gold chains in front of the inner sanctuary and covered it with gold.
22. He overlaid the whole temple inside with gold until the temple was completely covered. He covered the whole altar that was in the inner sanctuary with gold.
23. He made two winged creatures of olive wood for the inner sanctuary, each fifteen feet high.
24. The wings of the first winged creature were each seven and a half feet long. It was fifteen feet from the end of one wing to the end of the other.
25. The second winged creature also measured fifteen feet. Both winged creatures had identical measurements and form.
26. The height of both winged creatures was fifteen feet.
27. Solomon placed the winged creatures inside the temple. Their wings spread out so that the wing of the one touched one wall and the wing of the other touched the other wall. In the middle of the temple, the wings of the two winged creatures touched each other.
28. He covered the winged creatures with gold.
29. Solomon carved all the walls of the temple—inner and outer rooms—with engravings of winged creatures, palm trees, and blossoming flowers.
30. He also covered the floor of the temple with gold, in both the inner and the outer rooms.
31. He made the doors of the inner sanctuary from olive wood and carved the doorframes with five recesses.
32. He overlaid the two olive-wood doors with gold-plated carvings of winged creatures, palm trees, and blossoming flowers.