1 Kings 6:4

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

And he made to the house windows, with closed bars.

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.

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 so it came to pass, in the four hundred and eightieth year, by the coming forth of the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year (in the month of Zif, the same, being the second month) of the reign of Solomon over Israel, that he began to build the house unto Yahweh. ² Now, the house which King Solomon built unto Yahweh, was sixty cubits in length, and twenty in breadth, - and thirty cubits in height. ³ And, the porch in front of the temple of the house, was twenty cubits in length, according to the breadth of the house, - ten cubits in breadth, in front of the house. ⁴ And he made to the house windows, with closed bars. ⁵ And he built - by the wall of the house - a gallery, round about, against the walls of the house, round about, both to the temple, and to the shrine, - and he made side chambers round about. ⁶ The, lowest gallery, was five cubits broad, and, the middle, six cubits broad, and, the third, seven cubits broad, - for he put, ledges, against the house round about, on the outer side, so as not to make fastenings in the walls of the house. ⁷ Now, the house, when it was in building, with whole quarry-stones, was built, - neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tools of iron, was heard in the house, when it was in building. ⁸ The entrance of the lowest story, was on the right side of the house, - and, by winding stairs, went they up unto the middle story , and, out of the middle, into, the third. ⁹ So he built the house, and finished it, - and ceiled the house with planks and beams of cedar; ¹⁰ and built the gallery against all the house, five cubits in height, - and so fastened the house, with timber of cedar.

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 thou shalt make it, - three hundred cubits, the length of the ark, fifty cubits, the breadth thereof, and thirty cubits the height thereof.

Genesis 6:20
Of the bird after its kind and of the beast after its kind, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each, shall come in unto thee. for keeping alive.

Genesis 6:21
But thou, take to thee of all food that is eaten, and gather it unto thee, - and it shall be for thee and for them for food.

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

Genesis 11:4
And they said Come on! let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower with its head in the heavens, so let us make for ourselves a name, - lest we be scattered abroad over the face of all the earth.

Numbers 13:33
And, there, saw we the giants, sons of Anak descended of the giants, - And we were in our own eyes, as grass-hoppers, And, so, were we in their eyes.

Numbers 16:2
and rose up before Moses, with certain men of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty, - princes of assembly, called to the stated meeting, men of renown;

Deuteronomy 3:11
For, only Og, king of Bashan was left remaining of the remnant of the giants, lo! his bedstead, was a bedstead of iron, is not, the same, in Rabbath of the sons of Ammon? nine cubits, the length thereof and four cubits, the breadth thereof, by the fore-arm of a man.

1 Samuel 17:4
And there came forth a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, Goliath, his name, from Gath, - his height, 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.