^5 (A)He also built a structure^[a] against the wall of the house, running around the walls of the house, both the nave and ^(B)the inner sanctuary. And he made ^(C)side chambers all around.

^16 (A)He built twenty cubits of the rear of the house with boards of cedar from the floor to the walls, and he built this within as an inner sanctuary, as ^(B)the Most Holy Place.

⁹ And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen ^(A)from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. And they are^[a] there to this day.

⁷ Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, in the Most Holy Place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.

²⁰ the lampstands and their lamps of pure gold ^(A)to burn before the inner sanctuary, as prescribed;

³¹ For the entrance to the inner sanctuary he made doors of olivewood; the lintel and the doorposts were five-sided.^[a]

¹⁹ The inner sanctuary he prepared in the innermost part of the house, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord. ²⁰ The inner sanctuary^[a] was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid^[b] an altar of cedar. ²¹ And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.

³ Facing ^(A)the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court, and facing ^(B)the pavement that belonged to the outer court, was ^(C)gallery^[a] against gallery in three stories. ⁴ And ^(D)before the chambers was a passage inward, ten cubits wide and ^(E)a hundred cubits long,^[b] and ^(F)their doors were on the north. ⁵ Now the upper chambers were narrower, for the galleries took more away from them than from the lower and middle chambers of the building. ⁶ For they were in three stories, and they had no pillars like the pillars of the courts. Thus the upper chambers were set back from the ground more than the lower and the middle ones. ⁷ And ^(G)there was a wall outside parallel to the chambers, toward the outer court, opposite the chambers, ^(H)fifty cubits long. ⁸ For the chambers on the outer court were fifty cubits long, while those opposite ^(I)the nave^[c] were ^(J)a hundred cubits long. ⁹ Below these chambers was ^(K)an entrance on the east side, as one enters them from the outer court.

¹⁰ In the thickness of ^(L)the wall of the court, on the south^[d] also, opposite ^(M)the yard and opposite ^(N)the building, there were ^(O)chambers ¹¹ with ^(P)a passage in front of them. They were similar to the chambers on the north, of the same length and breadth, with the same exits^[e] and arrangements and ^(Q)doors, ¹² as were the entrances of the chambers on the south. There was an entrance at the beginning of the passage, the passage before ^(R)the corresponding wall on the east as one enters them.^[f]