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Then he built the twenty-cubit room at the rear of the temple, from floor to ceiling, with cedar boards; he built it inside as the inner sanctuary, as the Most Holy Place.
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And in front of it the temple sanctuary was forty cubits long.
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The inside of the temple was cedar, carved with ornamental buds and open flowers. All was cedar; there was no stone to be seen.
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And he prepared the inner sanctuary inside 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 it with pure gold, and overlaid the altar of cedar.
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So Solomon overlaid the inside of the temple with pure gold. He stretched gold chains across the front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.
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The whole temple he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the temple; also he overlaid with gold the entire altar that was by the inner sanctuary.
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Inside the inner sanctuary he made two cherubim of olive wood, each ten cubits high.
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One wing of the cherub was five cubits, and the other wing of the cherub five cubits: ten cubits from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other.
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And the other cherub was ten cubits; both cherubim were of the same size and shape.
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The height of one cherub was ten cubits, and so was the other cherub.