⁵ And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.

¹⁵ The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.

¹⁶ And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.

¹⁷ And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.

²¹ Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.

²² Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).