16. At the rear of the house a space of twenty cubits was set off by cedar panels from the floor to the ceiling, enclosing the inner sanctuary, the holy of holies.
17. The house was forty cubits long, that is, the nave, the part in front.
18. The cedar in the interior of the house was carved in the form of gourds and open flowers; all was of cedar, and no stone was to be seen.
19. In the innermost part of the house he set up the inner sanctuary to house the ark of the Lord’s covenant.
20. In front of the inner sanctuary (it was twenty cubits long, twenty wide, and twenty high, and he covered it with pure gold), he made an altar of cedar.
21. Solomon covered the interior of the house with pure gold, and he drew golden chains across in front of the inner sanctuary, and covered it with gold.
22. He covered the whole house with gold, until the whole house was done, and the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he covered with gold.
23. In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, made of pine.
24. Each wing of a cherub was five cubits so that the span from wing tip to wing tip was ten cubits.
25. The second cherub was also ten cubits: the two cherubim were identical in size and shape;