Interior Finishing and the Oracle

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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.

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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.

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

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The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.

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Solomon also prepared the inner sanctuary within the temple to set the ark of the covenant of the LORD there.

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The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.

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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.

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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.

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In the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim, each ten cubits high, out of olive wood.

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One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long, and the other wing was five cubits long as well. So the full wingspan was ten cubits.

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The second cherub also measured ten cubits; both cherubim had the same size and shape,

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and the height of each cherub was ten cubits.

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And he placed the cherubim inside the innermost room of the temple. Since their wings were spread out, the wing of the first cherub touched one wall, while the wing of the second cherub touched the other wall, and in the middle of the room their wingtips touched.

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He also overlaid the cherubim with gold.

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Then he carved the walls all around the temple, in both the inner and outer sanctuaries, with carved engravings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers.

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And he overlaid the temple floor with gold in both the inner and outer sanctuaries.

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For the entrance to the inner sanctuary, Solomon constructed doors of olive wood with five-sided doorposts.

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The double doors were made of olive wood, and he carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers and overlaid the cherubim and palm trees with hammered gold.

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In the same way he made four-sided doorposts of olive wood for the sanctuary entrance.

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The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.

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He carved into them cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold, hammered evenly over the carvings.

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