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1 Kings 6:4

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Window;   Scofield Reference Index - Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Solomon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Temple, the First;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Cubit;   Temple;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Architecture in the Biblical Period;   Window;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - House;   Israel;   Jerusalem;   Palm Tree;   Solomon;   Temple;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sa'tan;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Hebrew Monarchy, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Architecture;   Temple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - House;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He also made windows with beveled frames for the temple.
Hebrew Names Version
For the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
King James Version
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
English Standard Version
And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.
New Century Version
The Temple also had windows that opened and closed.
New English Translation
He made framed windows for the temple.
Amplified Bible
He also made framed (artistic) window openings for the house.
New American Standard Bible
Also for the house he made windows with artistic frames.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And in the house he made windowes, broad without, and narrowe within.
Legacy Standard Bible
Also for the house he made windows with artistic frames.
Contemporary English Version
The windows were narrow on the outside but wide on the inside.
Complete Jewish Bible
The windows he made for the house were wide on the inside and narrow on the outside.
Darby Translation
And for the house he made closed windows with fixed lattices.
Easy-to-Read Version
There were narrow windows in the Temple. These windows were smaller on the inside of the wall than on the outside.
George Lamsa Translation
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
Good News Translation
The walls of the Temple had openings in them, narrower on the outside than on the inside.
Lexham English Bible
And he made for the temple specially designed framed windows,
Literal Translation
And he made windows of narrowing frames for the house.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And in ye house he made wyndowes, which might be opened and shut with lyddes.
American Standard Version
And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
Bible in Basic English
And for the house he made windows, with network across.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in the house he made windowes, broade without, and narow within.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And for the house he made windows broad within, and narrow without.
King James Version (1611)
And for the house he made windowes of narrow lights.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he made to the house secret windows inclining inward.
English Revised Version
And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice–work.
Berean Standard Bible
He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Salomon made in the temple `wyndows streyte withoutforth, and large with ynne.
Young's Literal Translation
and he maketh for the house windows of narrow lights.
Update Bible Version
And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
Webster's Bible Translation
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
World English Bible
For the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
New King James Version
And he made for the house windows with beveled frames.
New Living Translation
Solomon also made narrow recessed windows throughout the Temple.
New Life Bible
He made windows for the house with beautiful cross-pieces.
New Revised Standard
For the house he made windows with recessed frames.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he made to the house windows, with closed bars.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he made in the temple oblique windows.
Revised Standard Version
And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Also for the house he made windows with artistic frames.

Contextual Overview

1Four hundred and eighty years after the Israelites came out of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's rule over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, Solomon started building The Temple of God . The Temple that King Solomon built to God was ninety feet long, thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet high. There was a porch across the thirty-foot width of The Temple that extended out fifteen feet. Within The Temple he made narrow, deep-silled windows. Against the outside walls he built a supporting structure in which there were smaller rooms: The lower floor was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet, and the third floor ten and a half feet. He had projecting ledges built into the outside Temple walls to support the buttressing beams. 7 The stone blocks for the building of The Temple were all dressed at the quarry so that the building site itself was reverently quiet—no noise from hammers and chisels and other iron tools. 8The entrance to the ground floor was at the south end of The Temple; stairs led to the second floor and then to the third. Solomon built and completed The Temple, finishing it off with roof beams and planks of cedar. The supporting structure along the outside walls was attached to The Temple with cedar beams and the rooms in it were seven and a half feet tall.

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

Genesis 6:22
Noah did everything God commanded him to do.
Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower that reaches Heaven. Let's make ourselves famous so we won't be scattered here and there across the Earth."
Deuteronomy 3:11
Og king of Bashan was the last remaining Rephaite. His bed, made of iron, was over thirteen feet long and six wide. You can still see it on display in Rabbah of the People of Ammon.
1 Samuel 17:4
A giant nearly ten feet tall stepped out from the Philistine line into the open, Goliath from Gath. He had a bronze helmet on his head and was dressed in armor—126 pounds of it! He wore bronze shin guards and carried a bronze sword. His spear was like a fence rail—the spear tip alone weighed over fifteen pounds. His shield bearer walked ahead of him.

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.


 
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