1 Kings 6:17
King James Version
“And the house, that the temple before it, was forty cubits”
Context
14So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
15And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: he covered on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
16And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built for it within, for the oracle, for the most holy
17And the house, that the temple before it, was forty cubits
18And the cedar of the house within carved with knops and open flowers: all cedar; there was no stone seen.
19And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
20And the oracle in the forepart twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar cedar.