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.