9. When he had finished building the house, it was roofed in with rafters and boards of cedar.
10. He built the substructure five cubits high all along the outside of the house, to which it was joined by cedar beams.
11. The word of the Lord came to Solomon:
12. As to this house you are building—if you walk in my statutes, carry out my ordinances, and observe all my commands, walking in them, I will fulfill toward you my word which I spoke to David your father.
13. I will dwell in the midst of the Israelites and will not forsake my people Israel.
14. When Solomon finished building the house,
15. its inside walls were lined with cedar paneling: he covered the interior with wood from floor to ceiling, and he covered its floor with fir planking.
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.