New International Reader's Version

1 Kings 6:13-18 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

13. I will live among my people Israel. I will not desert them."

14. So Solomon built the temple and finished it.

15. He put cedar boards on its inside walls. He covered them from floor to ceiling. He covered the temple floor with pine boards.

16. He put up a wall 30 feet from the back of the temple. He made it with cedar boards from floor to ceiling. That formed a room inside the temple. It was the Most Holy Room.

17. The main hall in front of the room was 60 feet long.

18. The inside of the temple was covered with cedar wood. Gourds and open flowers were carved on the wood. Everything was cedar. There wasn't any stone showing anywhere.