12. “Regarding this temple that you are building: if you walk in my ordinances and if you do my judgments and you keep all my commandments to walk in them, then I will establish my promise with you which I made to David your father.
13. And I will dwell among the Israelites, and I will not forsake my people Israel.”
14. So Solomon built the temple and finished it.
15. He lined the walls of the inside of the house with boards of cedar; from the floor of the temple up to the rafters of the ceiling he covered them with wood on the inside. He also covered the floor of the temple with cypress boards.
16. He built twenty cubits from the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor up to the ceiling, and he built for it an inner sanctuary on the inside, as the most holy place.
17. The main hall of the temple was forty cubits in front of the inner sanctuary,
18. with the cedar within the inner house having carvings of gourds and buds of flowers. It was entirely of cedar; there was not a stone visible.
19. Now in the inner sanctuary in the middle of the temple he prepared the inside to place the ark of the covenant of Yahweh there.
20. In front, the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold and covered the altar with cedar.
21. Solomon overlaid the temple on the inside with pure gold, and he drew across it with golden chains in front of the inner sanctuary, which he overlaid with gold.
22. All of the temple he overlaid with gold until all of the temple was finished; all of the altar which belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
23. He made two cherubim of olive wood for the inner sanctuary, ten cubits high.
24. Five cubits was the first wing of the cherub, and five cubits the second wing of the cherub, from the tip of his one wing up to the tip of his other wing.
25. The second cherub was ten cubits according to the same measurement, and there was one shape for the two cherubim.