2 Chronicles 3:5

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2 Chronicles 3:3–7 · Berean Standard Bible

3 The foundation that Solomon laid for the house of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide, according to the old standard.

4 The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.

5 He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.

6 He adorned the temple with precious stones for beauty, and its gold was from Parvaim.

7 He overlaid its beams, thresholds, walls, and doors with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.

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1 Kings 6:15

He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.

1 Kings 6:16

He partitioned off the twenty cubits at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from floor to ceiling to form within the temple an inner sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.

1 Kings 6:17

And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

1 Kings 6:21

So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold, and he extended gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, which was overlaid with gold.

1 Kings 6:22

So he overlaid with gold the whole interior of the temple, until everything was completely finished. He also overlaid with gold the entire altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary.