1 Kings 6:15-22

¹⁵ Then he built the walls of the house on the inside e with boards of cedar ; from the floor of the house to the ceiling e he overlaid the walls on the inside e with wood , and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress . ¹⁶ He built twenty cubits on the rear part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling ; he built them for it on the inside e as an inner sanctuary , even as the most holy place . ¹⁷ The house , that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long. ¹⁸ There was cedar on the house within , carved in the shape of gourds and open flowers ; all was cedar , there was no stone seen . ¹⁹ Then he prepared an inner sanctuary within the house in order to place there the ark of the covenant of the Lord . ²⁰ The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length , twenty cubits in width , and twenty cubits in height , and he overlaid it with pure gold . He also overlaid the altar with cedar . ²¹ So Solomon overlaid the inside e of the house with pure gold . And he drew chains of gold across the front of the inner sanctuary , and he overlaid it with gold . ²² He overlaid the whole house with gold , until all the house was finished . Also the whole altar which was by the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold .