1 Kings 6:14-20

Solomon Builds the Temple

¹⁴ _l So Solomon built the house and finished it. ¹⁵ He lined the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar. From the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood, _m and he covered the floor of the house with boards of cypress. ¹⁶ _n He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as _o the Most Holy Place. ¹⁷ The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long. ¹⁸ The cedar within the house was carved in the form of _p gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone was seen. ¹⁹ The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord. ²⁰ The inner sanctuary ₁ was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid ₂ an altar of cedar.

1. Cross References
   1 Kings 6:9
   So he built the house and finished it, and he made the ceiling of the house of beams and planks of cedar.
   1 Kings 6:38
   And in the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished in all its parts, and according to all its specifications. He was seven years in building it.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Kings 7:7
   And he made the Hall of the Throne where he was to pronounce judgment, even the Hall of Judgment. It was finished with cedar from floor to rafters.
   
3. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 3:8
   And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, corresponding to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth was twenty cubits. He overlaid it with 600 talents of fine gold.
   
4. Cross References
   1 Kings 7:50
   The cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense,...
   1 Kings 8:6
   Then the priests brought the ark of the covenan...
   Exodus 26:33 - 34
   And you shall hang the veil from the clasps, an...
   2 Chronicles 3:8
   And he made the Most Holy Place. Its length, co...
   Ezekiel 45:3
   And from this measured district you shall measu...
   Hebrews 9:3
   Behind the second curtain was a second section ...
   
5. Cross References
   1 Kings 7:24
   Under its brim were gourds, for ten cubits, compassing the sea all around. The gourds were in two rows, cast with it when it was cast.