2 Chronicles 3:4-6

Contemporary English Version

⁴ Across the front of the temple was a porch 9 meters wide and 9 meters^[a] high. The inside walls of the porch were covered with pure gold.

⁵ Solomon had the inside walls of the temple's main room paneled first with pine and then with a layer of gold, and he had them decorated with carvings of palm trees and designs that looked like chains. ⁶ He used precious stones to decorate the temple, and he used gold imported from Parvaim^[b]