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Complete Jewish Bible

1 Kings 7:5

All the doors and doorways were rectangular and opposite each other at all three levels.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Lebanon;   Palace;   Solomon;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Lebanon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Esarhaddon;   Palace;   Solomon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Art and Aesthetics;   Frame;   House of the Forest of Lebanon;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - House;   Israel;   Line;   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 - Against;   Architecture;   Court of the Sanctuary;   King;   Palace;   Solomon;   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Palace;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All the doors and doorposts had rectangular frames, the openings facing each other in three tiers.
Hebrew Names Version
All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.
King James Version
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
English Standard Version
All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers.
New Century Version
All the doors were square, and the three doors at each end faced each other.
New English Translation
All of the entrances were rectangular in shape and they were arranged in sets of three.
Amplified Bible
All the doorways and doorposts [and windows] had squared [artistic] frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers.
New American Standard Bible
And all the doorways and doorposts had squared artistic frames, and window was opposite window at three intervals.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And all the doores, and the side postes with the windowes were foure square, and windowe was ouer against windowe in three rankes.
Legacy Standard Bible
And all the doorways and doorposts had squared artistic frames, and window was opposite window in three ranks.
Contemporary English Version
and there were three doors on each side near the front of the hall.
Darby Translation
And all the doors and posts were square, with an architrave; and window was against window in three ranks.
Easy-to-Read Version
There were three doors at each end. All the door openings and frames were square.
George Lamsa Translation
And all the doors and posts were square, set one against another in three tiers.
Good News Translation
The doorways and the windows had rectangular frames, and the three rows of windows in each wall faced the opposite rows.
Lexham English Bible
All of the doorways and the doorframes had four-sided casings, with opening to opposite opening three times.
Literal Translation
And all the doors and the side posts were square along with the windows; and the front of a window was against a window in three rows.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
so that euery space betwixte the pilers was one ouer agaynst another foure squared with the pilers.
American Standard Version
And all the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.
Bible in Basic English
And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And al the doores with the syde postes & the vpper postes were foure square, and had windowes one against another three folde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And all the doors with their posts were square in the frame; and light was over against light in three ranks.
King James Version (1611)
And all the doores and postes were square, with the windowes: and light was against light in three rankes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And all the doors and spaces formed like chambers were square, and from door to door was a correspondence in three rows.
English Revised Version
And all the doors and posts were square in prospect: and light was over against light in three ranks.
Berean Standard Bible
All the doorways had rectangular frames, with the openings facing each other in tiers of three.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and on the pilers weren foure square trees, euene in alle thingis.
Young's Literal Translation
And all the openings and the side-posts [are] square -- windows; and sight [is] over-against sight three times.
Update Bible Version
And all the doors and jambs were made square with beams: and window was opposite window in three ranks.
Webster's Bible Translation
And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the windows: and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.
World English Bible
All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.
New King James Version
And all the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames; and window was opposite window in three tiers.
New Living Translation
All the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames and were arranged in sets of three, facing each other.
New Life Bible
All the doors and windows were as high as they were wide. And there were three rows of windows on each side.
New Revised Standard
All the doorways and doorposts had four-sided frames, opposite, facing each other in the three rows.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, all the openings and the posts, were square in their frame, - and light was over against light, three times.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And looking one upon another, with equal space between the pillars, and over the pillars were square beams in all things equal.
Revised Standard Version
All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
All the doorways and doorposts had squared artistic frames, 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

doors and posts were square, with the windows: or, spaces and pillars were square in prospect, 1 Kings 7:5

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:4 - windows

Cross-References

Genesis 6:22
This is what Noach did; he did all that God ordered him to do.
Exodus 39:32
Thus all the work for the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, was finished, with the people of Isra'el doing everything exactly as Adonai had ordered Moshe.
Exodus 40:16
Moshe did this — he acted in accordance with everything Adonai had ordered him to do.
Psalms 119:6
Then I will not be put to shame, since I will have fixed my sight on all your mitzvot.
Matthew 3:15
However, Yeshua answered him, "Let it be this way now, because we should do everything righteousness requires." Then Yochanan let him.
Luke 8:21
But he gave them this answer: "My mother and brothers are those who hear God's message and act on it!"
John 2:5
His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
John 13:17
If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
Philippians 2:8
he humbled himself still more by becoming obedient even to death — death on a stake as a criminal!
Hebrews 5:8
Even though he was the Son, he learned obedience through his sufferings.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all the doors and posts were square with the windows,.... The doors into the several stories and apartments, and the posts and lintel of them, and the windows over them, were all square:

and light was against light in three ranks; they answered one another as before.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All the doors and posts - The doorways, and the posts which formed them, seem to be intended. These were square at top, not arched or rounded. In Assyrian buildings arched doorways were not uncommon. The doorways also, like the windows, exactly faced one another.


 
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