1 Kings 6:15-22

¹⁵ The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood. ¹⁶ And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room. ¹⁷ And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long. ¹⁸ (All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.) ¹⁹ And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord. ²⁰ And the inmost room was twenty cubits square and twenty cubits high, plated over with clear gold, and he made an altar of cedar-wood, plating it with gold. ²¹ Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold. ²² Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).