1 Kings 6:14

THE HOLY OF HOLIES WAS OVERLAID WITH PURE GOLD

"So Solomon built the house and finished it. And he built the walls of the house within of cedar: from the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling: he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir. And he built twenty cubits on the hinder part of the house with boards of cedar from the floor unto the walls of the ceiling: he built it for them within, for an oracle, even for the most holy place. And the house, that is the temple, before the oracle was forty cubits long. And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen. And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah. And within the oracle there was a space of twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof,' and he overlaid it with pure gold: and he covered the altar with cedar. So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he drew chains of gold across before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold. And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold."

It is clear that, in a general sense, Solomon built the temple somewhat after the pattern of the Tabernacle which God had given to Moses, although approximately doubling the dimensions of some portions of it. However, there is no statement here that Solomon followed any divine instructions whatever, either in the kinds of wood used, or in the lavish expenditure of incredible wealth in the use of pure gold to overlay the whole building.