10. He also built the stories against the whole house, each five cubits high; and they were fastened to the house with timbers of cedar.
11. Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon saying,
12. "Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My ordinances and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will carry out My word with you which I spoke to David your father.
13. I will dwell among the sons of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel."
14. So Solomon built the house and finished it.
15. Then he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the ceiling he overlaid the walls on the inside with wood, and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.
16. He built twenty cubits on the rear part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling; he built them for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, even as the most holy place.
17. The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.
18. There was cedar on the house within, carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen.
19. Then he prepared an inner sanctuary within the house in order to place there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
20. The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in height, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the altar with cedar.
21. So Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold. And he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary, and he overlaid it with gold.
22. He overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar which was by the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
23. Also in the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
24. Five cubits was the one wing of the cherub and five cubits the other wing of the cherub; from the end of one wing to the end of the other wing were ten cubits.
25. The other cherub was ten cubits; both the cherubim were of the same measure and the same form.
26. The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.
27. He placed the cherubim in the midst of the inner house, and the wings of the cherubim were spread out, so that the wing of the one was touching the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub was touching the other wall. So their wings were touching each other in the center of the house.
28. He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29. Then he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, inner and outer sanctuaries.