1 Kings 6:4

New King James Version

And he made for the house windows with beveled frames.

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 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 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth [fn] year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the Lord. ² Now the house which King Solomon built for the LORD, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits. ³ The vestibule in front of the sanctuary Exodus 26:33 and Ezekiel 41:1)">[fn] of the house was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the width of [fn] the vestibule extended ten cubits from the front of the house. ⁴ And he made for the house windows with beveled frames. ⁵ Against the wall of the temple he built chambers all around, against the walls of the temple, all around the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. 1 Kings 6:16)">[fn] Thus he made side chambers all around it. ⁶ The lowest chamber was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the temple, so that the support beams would not be fastened into the walls of the temple. ⁷ And the temple, when it was being built, was built with stone finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built. ⁸ The doorway for the middle story [fn] was on the right side of the temple. They went up by stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third. ⁹ So he built the temple and finished it, and he paneled the temple with beams and boards of cedar. ¹⁰ And he built side chambers against the entire temple, each five cubits high; they were attached to the temple with 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
And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

Genesis 6:20
Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.

Genesis 6:21
And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them."

Genesis 6:22
Thus Noah did; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.

Genesis 11:4
And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth."

Numbers 13:33
33 There we saw the giants [fn] (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."

Numbers 16:2
and they rose up before Moses with some of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, representatives of the congregation, men of renown.

Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the giants. [fn] Indeed his bedstead was an iron bedstead. (Is it not in Rabbah of the people of Ammon?) Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.

1 Samuel 17:4
And a champion went out from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

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.