1 Kings 6:4

Douay-Rheims Bible

And he made in the temple oblique windows.

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.

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 year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of the reign of Solomon over Israel, in the month Zio, (the same is the second month) he began to build a house to the Lord. ² And the house, which king Solomon built to the Lord, was threescore cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and thirty cubits in height. ³ And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple. ⁴ And he made in the temple oblique windows. ⁵ And upon the wall of the temple, he built floors round about, in the walls of the house, round about the temple and the oracle, and he made chambers in the sides round about. ⁶ The floor that was underneath was five cubits in breadth, and the middle floor was six cubits in breadth, and the third floor was seven cubits in breadth. And he put beams in the house round about on the outside, that they might not be fastened in the walls of the temple. ⁷ And the house, when it was in building, was built of stones, hewed and made ready: so that there was neither hammer nor axe, nor any tool of iron heard in the house when it was in building. ⁸ The door, for the middle side, was on the right hand of the house: and by winding stairs they went up to the middle room, and from the middle to the third. ⁹ So he built the house, and finished it: and he covered the house with roofs of cedar. ¹⁰ And he built a floor over all the house, five cubits in height, and he covered 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 thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

Genesis 6:20
Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.

Genesis 6:21
Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.

Genesis 6:22
And Noe did all things which God commanded him.

Genesis 11:4
And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.

Numbers 13:33
(13-34) There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.

Numbers 16:2
Rose up against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others of the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the time of assembly were called by name.

Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of a man’s hand.

1 Samuel 17:4
And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Geth, 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.