17And the house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
18And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
19And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.
20And within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.
21So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
22And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.
23And in the oracle he made two cherubim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.
