1 Kings 6:15-22

¹⁵ He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir. ¹⁶ He built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls of the ceiling: he built them for it within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place. ¹⁷ The house, that is, the temple before the oracle, was forty cubits long. ¹⁸ There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. ¹⁹ He prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. ²⁰ Within the oracle was a space of twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in its height; and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar. ²¹ So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. ²² The whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.