1 Kings 6:4

New Century Version

The Temple also had windows that opened and closed.

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 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

¹ Solomon began to build the Temple four hundred eighty years after the people of Israel had left Egypt. This was during the fourth year of King Solomon's rule over Israel. It was the second month, the month of Ziv. ² The Temple was ninety feet long, thirty feet wide, and forty-five feet high. ³ The porch in front of the main room of the Temple was fifteen feet deep and thirty feet wide. This room ran along the front of the Temple itself. Its width was equal to that of the Temple. ⁴ The Temple also had windows that opened and closed. ⁵ Solomon also built some side rooms against the walls of the main room and the inner room of the Temple. He built rooms all around. ⁶ The rooms on the bottom floor were seven and one-half feet wide. Those on the middle floor were nine feet wide, and the rooms above them were ten and one-half feet wide. The Temple wall that formed the side of each room was thinner than the wall in the room below. These rooms were pushed against the Temple wall, but they did not have their main beams built into this wall. ⁷ The stones were prepared at the same place where they were cut from the ground. Since these stones were the only ones used to build the Temple, there was no noise of hammers, axes, or any other iron tools at the Temple. ⁸ The entrance to the lower rooms beside the Temple was on the south side. From there, stairs went up to the second-floor rooms. And from there, stairs went on to the third-floor rooms. ⁹ Solomon put a roof made from beams and cedar boards on the Temple. So he finished building the Temple ¹⁰ as well as the bottom floor that was beside the Temple. This bottom floor was seven and one-half feet high and was attached to the Temple by cedar beams.

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 6:15
This is how big I want you to build the boat: four hundred fifty feet long, seventy-five feet wide, and forty-five feet high.

Genesis 6:20
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and crawling thing will come to you to be kept alive.

Genesis 6:21
Also gather some of every kind of food and store it on the boat as food for you and the animals."

Genesis 6:22
Noah did everything that God commanded him.

Genesis 11:4
Then they said to each other, "Let's build a city and a tower for ourselves, whose top will reach high into the sky. We will become famous. Then we will not be scattered over all the earth."

Numbers 13:33
We saw the Nephilim people there. (The Anakites come from the Nephilim people.) We felt like grasshoppers, and we looked like grasshoppers to them."

Numbers 16:2
These men gathered two hundred fifty other Israelite men, well-known leaders chosen by the community, and challenged Moses.

Deuteronomy 3:11
(Only Og king of Bashan was left of the few Rephaites. His bed was made of iron, and it was more than thirteen feet long and six feet wide! It is still in the Ammonite city of Rabbah.)

1 Samuel 17:4
The Philistines had a champion fighter from Gath named Goliath. He was about nine feet, four inches tall. He came out of the Philistine camp

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.