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Complete Jewish Bible

1 Kings 7:4

There were three rows of window openings, placed so that the windows on facing walls were opposite each other at all three levels.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Lebanon;   Palace;   Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Houses;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Lebanon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Esarhaddon;   Palace;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Frame;   House of the Forest of Lebanon;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Window;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Palace;   Temple;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Pillar;   Window;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Court of the Sanctuary;   King;   Palace;   Solomon;   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Palace;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
There were three rows of window frames, facing each other in three tiers.
Hebrew Names Version
There were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.
King James Version
And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
English Standard Version
There were window frames in three rows, and window opposite window in three tiers.
New Century Version
Windows were placed in three rows facing each other.
New English Translation
There were three rows of windows arranged in sets of three.
Amplified Bible
There were artistic window frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three tiers.
New American Standard Bible
There were artistic window frames in three rows, and window was opposite window at three intervals.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the windowes were in three rowes, & windowe was against windowe in three rankes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now there were artistic window frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three ranks.
Contemporary English Version
Three rows of windows on each side faced each other,
Darby Translation
And there were cross-beams in three rows, and window was against window in three ranks.
Easy-to-Read Version
There were three rows of windows across from each other on the side walls.
George Lamsa Translation
And there were balconies in three rows set one against another in three tiers.
Good News Translation
On each of the two side walls there were three rows of windows.
Lexham English Bible
There were three rows of specially designed windows; with window to window three times.
Literal Translation
And windows were in three rows, and light was against light in three rows.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so yt there stode euer thre pilers one right ouer agaynst another:
American Standard Version
And there were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.
Bible in Basic English
There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there were windowes in three rowes, and the windowes were one against another three folde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And there were beams in three rows; and light was over against light in three ranks.
King James Version (1611)
And there were windowes in three rowes, and light was against light in three rankes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and there were three chambers, and space against space in three rows.
English Revised Version
And there were prospects in three rows, and light was over against light in three ranks.
Berean Standard Bible
There were three rows of high windows facing each other in three tiers.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and biholdynge hem silf euene ayens, bi euene space bitwixe the pilers;
Young's Literal Translation
And windows [are] in three rows, and sight [is] over-against sight three times.
Update Bible Version
And there were beams in three rows, and window was opposite window in three ranks.
Webster's Bible Translation
And [there were] windows in three rows, and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.
World English Bible
There were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.
New King James Version
There were windows with beveled frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three tiers.
New Living Translation
On each end of the long hall were three rows of windows facing each other.
New Life Bible
There were three rows of special windows on one side, and three rows of windows on the other side.
New Revised Standard
There were window frames in the three rows, facing each other in the three rows.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And there were, window spaces, in three rows, - and light over against light, three times.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Set one against another,
Revised Standard Version
There were window frames in three rows, and window opposite window in three tiers.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
There were artistic window frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three ranks.

Contextual Overview

1 Shlomo built a palace for himself, taking thirteen years to finish it. 2 For he built the House of the L'vanon Forest 175 feet long, eighty-seven-and-a-half feet wide and fifty-two-and-a-half feet high, on four rows of cedar posts, with cedar beams on the posts. 3 It had a roof made of cedar and supported by beams lying on forty-five posts, fifteen in a row. 4 There were three rows of window openings, placed so that the windows on facing walls were opposite each other at all three levels. 5 All the doors and doorways were rectangular and opposite each other at all three levels. 6 He made the columned hall eighty-seven-and-a-half feet long and fifty-two-and-a-half feet wide, with a columned, corniced porch in front of it. 7 He made the Hall of the Throne his place for dispensing justice, that is, the Hall of Judgment; it was covered with cedar from floor to ceiling. 8 His own living quarters, in the other courtyard, set back from the Hall, were similarly designed. He also made a house like this Hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Shlomo had taken as his wife. 9 All these buildings were made of expensive stone blocks, cut to measure and finished by saws on the inner surfaces as well as the outer ones. These stones were used from the foundation to the eaves and outward from the buildings all the way to the Great Courtyard. 10 The foundation was of expensive stone blocks, very large ones — stones fourteen to eighteen feet long.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

windows: 1 Kings 7:5, 1 Kings 6:4, Isaiah 54:12, Ezekiel 40:16, Ezekiel 40:22, Ezekiel 40:25, Ezekiel 40:29, Ezekiel 40:33, Ezekiel 40:36, Ezekiel 41:26

light was against light: Heb. sight against sight

Cross-References

Genesis 2:5
there was as yet no wild bush on the earth, and no wild plant had as yet sprung up; for Adonai , God, had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no one to cultivate the ground.
Genesis 6:3
Adonai said, "My Spirit will not live in human beings forever, for they too are flesh; therefore their life span is to be 120 years."
Genesis 6:7
Adonai said, "I will wipe out humankind, whom I have created, from the whole earth; and not only human beings, but animals, creeping things and birds in the air; for I regret that I ever made them."
Genesis 6:13
God said to Noach, "The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth.
Genesis 6:17
"Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed.
Genesis 7:10
After seven days the water flooded the earth.
Genesis 7:11
On the seventeenth day of the second month of the 600th year of Noach's life all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of the sky were opened.
Genesis 7:12
It rained on the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:17
(iii) The flood was forty days on the earth; the water grew higher and floated the ark, so that it was lifted up off the earth.
Genesis 7:21
All living beings that moved on the earth perished — birds, livestock, other animals, insects, and every human being,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And there were windows in three rows,.... Both in the second and third stories, east, north, and south, there being none in the west, where the porch stood:

and light was against light in three ranks; or the windows, through which light was let, answered to each other.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Either three ranges of windows, one above the other, on either side of the house; or perhaps the three ranges were one in either side wall, and the third in a wall down the middle of the hall, along the course of the midmost row of pillars. The windows were directly opposite one another, giving what we call a through light.


 
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