1 Kings 6:9-18

9When he finished building the temple, he paneled it with boards and planks of cedar.

10He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams; each story was 7½ feet high.

11The word of the Lord came to Solomon:

12“As for this temple you are building — if you walk in my statutes, observe my ordinances, and keep all my commands by walking in them, I will fulfill my promise to you, which I made to your father David.

13I will dwell among the Israelites and not abandon my people Israel.”

14When Solomon finished building the temple,

15he paneled the interior temple walls with cedar boards; from the temple floor to the surface of the ceiling he overlaid the interior with wood. He also overlaid the floor with cypress boards.

16Then he lined thirty feet of the rear of the temple with cedar boards from the floor to the surface of the ceiling, and he built the interior as an inner sanctuary, the most holy place.

17The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place, was sixty feet long.

18The cedar paneling inside the temple was carved with ornamental gourds and flower blossoms. Everything was cedar; not a stone could be seen.