¹⁶ And he built twenty cubits of the innermost part of the house, both floor and walls, with boards of cedar; and he built [them] for it within, to [be] the oracle, the most holy place.

¹⁷ And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits [long].

¹⁸ And the cedar of the house within was carved with colocynths and half-open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.