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The cedar within the house had carvings of gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, no stone was seen.
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The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
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The interior of the inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high; he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid the altar with cedar.
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Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, then he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
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Next he overlaid the whole house with gold, in order that the whole house might be perfect; even the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.
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In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olivewood, each ten cubits high.
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Five cubits was the length of one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the length of the other wing of the cherub; it was ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.
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The other cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same measure and the same form.
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The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was that of the other cherub.
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He put the cherubim in the innermost part of the house; the wings of the cherubim were spread out so that a wing of one was touching the one wall, and a wing of the other cherub was touching the other wall; their other wings toward the center of the house were touching wing to wing.
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He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.