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1 Kings 6:4
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He also made windows with beveled frames for the temple.
For the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.
The Temple also had windows that opened and closed.
He made framed windows for the temple.
He also made framed (artistic) window openings for the house.
Also for the house he made windows with artistic frames.
Also for the house he made windows with artistic frames.
The windows were narrow on the outside but wide on the inside.
The windows he made for the house were wide on the inside and narrow on the outside.
And for the house he made closed windows with fixed lattices.
There were narrow windows in the Temple. These windows were smaller on the inside of the wall than on the outside.
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
The walls of the Temple had openings in them, narrower on the outside than on the inside.
And he made for the temple specially designed framed windows,
And he made windows of narrowing frames for the house.
And in ye house he made wyndowes, which might be opened and shut with lyddes.
And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
And for the house he made windows, with network across.
And in the house he made windowes, broade without, and narow within.
And for the house he made windows broad within, and narrow without.
And for the house he made windowes of narrow lights.
And he made to the house secret windows inclining inward.
And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice–work.
He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.
And Salomon made in the temple `wyndows streyte withoutforth, and large with ynne.
and he maketh for the house windows of narrow lights.
And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
For the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
And he made for the house windows with beveled frames.
Solomon also made narrow recessed windows throughout the Temple.
He made windows for the house with beautiful cross-pieces.
For the house he made windows with recessed frames.
And he made to the house windows, with closed bars.
And he made in the temple oblique windows.
And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.
Also for the house he made windows with artistic frames.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
windows of narrow lights: or, windows broad within, and narrow without; or, skewed and closed, 1 Kings 6:4, Song of Solomon 2:9, Ezekiel 40:16, Ezekiel 41:26
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:4 - windows Ezekiel 41:16 - narrow
Cross-References
And thus shalt thou make it: The length of the Arke shalbe three hundreth cubites, the breadth of it fiftie cubites, and the height of it thirtie cubites.
Of the foules, after their kinde, and of the cattell after their kind, of euery creeping thing of the earth after his kinde, two of euery sort shall come vnto thee, that thou mayest keepe them aliue.
And take thou with thee of all meate that is eaten: and thou shalt gather it to thee, that it may be meate for thee and for them.
Noah therefore did according vnto all, that God commanded him: euen so did he.
Also they said, Goe to, let vs builde vs a citie and a towre, whose top may reache vnto the heauen, that we may get vs a name, lest we be scattered vpon the whole earth.
For there we sawe gyants, the sonnes of Anak, which come of the gyants, so that we seemed in our sight like grashoppers: and so wee were in their sight.
And they rose vp against Moses, with certaine of the children of Israel, two hundreth and fiftie captaines of the assemblie, famous in the Congregation, and men of renoume,
For onely Og King of Bashan remained of the remnant of the gyants, whose bed was a bed of yron: is it not at Rabbath among the children of Ammon? the length thereof is nine cubites, and foure cubites the breadth of it, after the cubite of a man.
Then came a man betweene them both out of the tents of the Philistims, named Goliath of Gath: his height was sixe cubites and an hande breadth,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. Or "open, shut" o, which could be both, having shutters to them, to open or shut at pleasure; windows which they could open, and look through at them, or shut when they pleased; the Targum is,
"open within, and shut without;''
or, as others understand it, they were wide within, and narrow without; by being narrow without, the house was preserved from bad weather, as well as could not so easily be looked into by those without; and by being broader within, the light that was let in spread itself within the house; which some interpret only of the holy place, the most holy place having, as they suppose, no windows in it, which yet is not certain: now these windows may denote the word and ordinances of the church of God, whereby light is communicated to men; which in the present state is but narrow or small, in comparison of the new Jerusalem church state, and the ultimate glory; and especially so it was under the legal dispensation, which was very obscure; see Song of Solomon 2:9
Isaiah 55:8.
o אטמים שקפים "apertas clausas", Vatablus; "perspectui accommodas, clausas", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Windows of narrow lights - Either (as in the margin) windows, externally mere slits in the wall, but opening wide within, like the windows of old castles: or, more probably, “windows with fixed lattices.” The windows seem to have been placed high in the walls, above the chambers spoken of in 1 Kings 6:5-8.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Kings 6:4. Windows of narrow lights. — The Vulgate says, fenestras obliquas, oblique windows; but what sort of windows could such be?
The Hebrew is חלוני שקפים אטמים challoney shekuphim atumim, windows to look through, which shut. Probably latticed windows: windows through which a person within could see well; but a person without, nothing. Windows, says the Targum, which were open within and shut without. Does he mean windows with shutters; or, are we to understand, with the Arabic, windows opening wide within, and narrow on the outside; such as we still see in ancient castles? This sense our margin expresses. We hear nothing of glass or any other diaphanous substance. Windows, perhaps originally windore, a door to let the wind in, in order to ventilate the building, and through which external objects might be discerned.
