7. He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.
8. He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.
9. The gold nails weighed fifty shekels. He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.
10. For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.
11. The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.
12. Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub.
13. The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.
14. He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.
15. For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits long, each with a capital five cubits high.
16. He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains.