Discovery Box1 Kings 6:15 
Context6:15 He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters 1 of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.
1 Kings 6:24
Context6:24 Each of the first cherub’s wings was seven and a half feet long; its entire wingspan was 15 feet. 2
1 tc The MT reads קִירוֹת (qirot, “walls”), but this should be emended to קוֹרוֹת (qorot, “rafters”). See BDB 900 s.v. קוֹרָה.
2 tn Heb “The first wing of the [one] cherub was five cubits, and the second wing of the cherub was five cubits, ten cubits from the tips of his wings to the tips of his wings.”
