17
The house, that is, the temple before [the oracle], was forty cubits [long].
18
There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
19
He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
20
Within the oracle was [a space of] twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height of it; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.
21
So Shlomo overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
22
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.
23
In the oracle he made two Keruvim of olive-wood, each ten cubits high.
24
Five cubits was the one wing of the Keruv, and five cubits the other wing of the Keruv: from the uttermost part of the one wing to the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.
25
The other Keruv was ten cubits: both the Keruvim were of one measure and one form.
26
The height of the one Keruv was ten cubits, and so was it of the other Keruv.
27
He set the Keruvim within the inner house; and the wings of the Keruvim were stretched forth, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other Keruv touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.