1 Kings 6:18-28

18 The entire interior of The Temple was cedar, with carvings of fruits and flowers. All cedar - none of the stone was exposed.
19 The Inner Sanctuary within The Temple was for housing the Chest of the Covenant of God.
20 This Inner Sanctuary was a cube, thirty feet each way, all plated with gold. The Altar of cedar was also gold-plated.
21 Everywhere you looked there was pure gold: gold chains strung in front of the gold-plated Inner Sanctuary
22 - gold everywhere - walls, ceiling, floor, and Altar. Dazzling!
23 Then he made two cherubim, gigantic angel-like figures, from olivewood. Each was fifteen feet tall.
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.
28 The cherubim were gold plated.
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