⁴ The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits^[a] long across the width of the building and twenty^[b] cubits high.

He overlaid the inside with pure gold. ⁵ He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree^(A) and chain designs. ⁶ He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim. ⁷ He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim^(B) on the walls.

⁸ He built the Most Holy Place,^(C) its length corresponding to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents^[c] of fine gold. ⁹ The gold nails^(D) weighed fifty shekels.^[d] He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.

¹⁰ For the Most Holy Place he made a pair^(E) of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.