12. “As for this House which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes, execute My ordinances and keep all My mitzvot by walking in them, then I will establish My word with you, which I spoke to your father David,
13. I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake My people Israel.”
14. So Solomon built the House and finished it.
15. He paneled the walls of the House on the inside with cedar planks of cedar; from the floor of the House to the ceiling he overlaid on the inside with wood; and he overlaid the floor of the House with planks of cypress.
16. Then he partitioned off 20 cubits at the rear part of the House, using cedar boards from the floor to the ceiling, building it as the inner Sanctuary—the Holy of Holies.
17. The House, that is, the Sanctuary, was 40 cubits long in front of the inner Sanctuary.
18. The cedar of the interior of the House was carved as gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was visible.
19. He prepared an inner Sanctuary within the House, to set there the ark of the covenant of Adonai.
20. The inner Sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in breadth and twenty cubits in height. He overlaid it with pure gold, and overlaid the cedar altar.
21. So Solomon overlaid the interior of the House with pure gold; and he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner Sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
22. So the entire House he overlaid with gold until the entire House was finished; even the entire altar by the inner Sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
23. In the inner Sanctuary he made two cheruvim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
24. The length of one wing of the cheruv was five cubits and the length of the other wing of the cheruv was five cubits—ten cubits from the end of one wing to the end of the other,
25. and the other cheruv was also ten cubits. Both cheruvim were the same in measure and form:
26. the height of the one cheruv was ten cubits and so the other cheruv.
27. Then he placed the cheruvim inside the inner House. When the wings of the cheruvim extended, the wing of the one touched one wall while the wing of the other cheruv touched the other wall, while their wings in the center of the House touched one another.