1 Kings 6:13-23

13 I'll personally take up my residence among the Israelites - I won't desert my people Israel."
14 Solomon built and completed The Temple.
15 He paneled the interior walls from floor to ceiling with cedar planks; for flooring he used cypress.
16 The thirty feet at the rear of The Temple he made into an Inner Sanctuary, cedar planks from floor to ceiling - the Holy of Holies.
17 The Main Sanctuary area in front was sixty feet long.
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.
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