And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.

Now the upper chambers were shorter, for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.

Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch [of the temple], and of the houses of it, and of the treasuries of it, and of the upper rooms of it, and of the inner chambers of it, and of the place of the mercy-seat,