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19 The Inner Sanctuary within The Temple was for housing the Chest of the Covenant of God.
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He prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.
20 This Inner Sanctuary was a cube, thirty feet each way, all plated with gold. The Altar of cedar was also gold-plated.
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The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty wide and twenty high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.
21 Everywhere you looked there was pure gold: gold chains strung in front of the gold-plated Inner Sanctuary
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Solomon covered the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.
22 - gold everywhere - walls, ceiling, floor, and Altar. Dazzling!
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So he overlaid the whole interior with gold. He also overlaid with gold the altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.
23 Then he made two cherubim, gigantic angel-like figures, from olivewood. Each was fifteen feet tall.
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For the inner sanctuary he made a pair of cherubim out of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
24 The outstretched wings of the cherubim (they were identical in size and shape) measured another fifteen feet. He placed the two cherubim, their wings spread, in the Inner Sanctuary. The combined wingspread stretched the width of the room, the wing of one cherub touched one wall, the wing of the other the other wall, and the wings touched in the middle.
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One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing five cubits—ten cubits from wing tip to wing tip.
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The second cherub also measured ten cubits, for the two cherubim were identical in size and shape.
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The height of each cherub was ten cubits.
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He placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple, with their wings spread out. The wing of one cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the other touched the other wall, and their wings touched each other in the middle of the room.
28 The cherubim were gold plated.
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He overlaid the cherubim with gold.
29 He then carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and flower blossoms on all the walls of both the Inner and the Main Sanctuary.
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On the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer rooms, he carved cherubim, palm trees and open flowers.
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