^{16 Ref} And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the walls `of the ceiling': he built `them' for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place.

¹⁷ And the house, that is, the temple before `the oracle', was forty cubits `long'.

^{18 Ref} And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

^{19 Ref} And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.

^{20 Ref} And within the oracle was `a space of' twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar.