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Brenton's Septuagint

1 Kings 6:4

And he made to the house secret windows inclining inward.

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.
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 In the fourth year he laid the foundation of the house of the Lord, in the month Ziu, even in the second month. 2 And the house which the king built to the Lord was forty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and its height five and twenty cubits. 3 And the porch in front of the temple—twenty cubits was its length according to the breadth of the house in front of the house: and he built the house, and finished it. 4 And he made to the house secret windows inclining inward. 5 And against the wall of the house he set chambers round about the temple and the ark. 6 The under side was five cubits broad, and the middle part six, and the third was seven cubits broad; for he formed an interval to the house round about without the house, that they might not touch the walls of the house. 7 And the house was built in the construction of it with rough hewn stones: and there was not heard in the house in the building of it hammer or axe, or any iron tool. 8 And the porch of the under side was below the right wing of the house, and there was a winding ascent into the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third story. 9 So he built the house and finished it; and he made the ceiling of the house with cedars. 10 006

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
Make therefore for thyself an ark of square timber; thou shalt make the ark in compartments, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
Genesis 6:20
And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.
Genesis 6:21
Of all winged birds after their kind, and of all cattle after their kind, and of all reptiles creeping upon the earth after their kind, pairs of all shall come in to thee, male and female to be fed with thee.
Genesis 6:22
And thou shalt take to thyself of all kinds of food which ye eat, and thou shalt gather them to thyself, and it shall be for thee and them to eat.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Numbers 13:33
And they brought a horror of that land which they surveyed upon the children of Israel, saying, The land which we passed by to survey it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of extraordinary stature.
Numbers 16:2
and rose up before Moses, and two hundred and fifty men of the sons of Israel, chiefs of the assembly, chosen councillors, and men of renown.
Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og the king of Basan was left of the Raphain: behold, his bed was a bed of iron; behold, it is in the chief city of the children of Ammon; the length of it is nine cubits, and the breadth of it four cubits, according to the cubit of a man.
1 Samuel 17:4
And there went forth a mighty man out of the army of the Philistines, Goliath, by name, out of Geth, his height was four 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.


 
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