1 Kings 6:9-18

9Solomon finished building the temple. He made the roof with wooden beams and with cedar boards.

10He also built the rooms around the sides of the temple. Each room was 2.3 metres high. Cedar beams fixed the rooms to the temple building.

11Then the Lord gave this message to Solomon:

12‘I will make my home in this temple that you are building. I will do everything for you that I promised to your father David. But you must obey my laws, rules and commands.

13Then I will live among my people, the Israelites. I will never leave them.’

14So Solomon finished building the temple.

15He used cedar boards to cover the walls on the inside of the temple. The boards went from the floor of the temple up to its ceiling. He covered the floor of the temple with wood from pine trees.

16He built a wall across the inside of the temple to make a separate room. That wall was 9 metres from the back wall of the temple. The inside room was the Most Holy Place. The walls were covered with cedar boards from the floor to the ceiling.

17The big hall in front of the Most Holy Place was 18 metres long.

18The inside of the temple was covered with boards made of cedar wood. The workers cut pictures of fruits and flowers on the wood. The cedar boards completely covered the stone walls, so you could not see any stone.