1 Kings 6:9-18

9So Solomon built the house (temple) and finished it, and roofed the house with beams and boards of cedar.

10Then he built the extensions [of rooms] against the entire house, each [story] five cubits high; and they were attached to the house with timbers of cedar.

11Now the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

12“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My precepts and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will carry out My word (promises) with you which I made to David your father.

13I will dwell among the sons (descendants) of Israel, and will not abandon My people Israel.”

14So Solomon built the house (temple) and finished it.

15He built the walls of the interior of the house [that is, the Holy Place and the Holy of Holies] with boards of cedar, from the floor of the house to the rafters of the ceiling. He overlaid the interior with wood, and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

16He built twenty cubits on the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ceiling; he built its interior as the [inner] sanctuary, the Holy of Holies.

17The [rest of the] house, that is, the temple in front of the Holy of Holies, was forty cubits long.

18The cedar on the house within had wood carvings in the shape of gourds and open flowers. Everything was cedar; no stone was visible.