^16 (A)He also built ^[a]twenty cubits on the rear part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the ^[b]ceiling; he built them for it on the inside as an inner sanctuary, as ^(B)the Most Holy Place.

¹⁹ Then he prepared an inner sanctuary inside the house in order to place there the ark of the covenant of the Lord. ^20 [a]The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits in length, twenty cubits in width, and twenty cubits in height; and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also paneled the altar with cedar.