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1 Kings 6:4

He also made windows with beveled frames for the temple.

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

Legacy Standard Bible
Also for the house he made windows with artistic frames.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Also for the house he made windows with artistic frames.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in the house he made windowes, broade without, and narow within.
Literal Translation
And he made windows of narrowing frames for the house.
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.
Revised Standard Version
And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.
World English Bible
For the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
King James Version (1611)
And for the house he made windowes of narrow lights.
King James Version
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
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.
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.
New English Translation
He made framed windows for the temple.
New King James Version
And he made for the house windows with beveled 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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And in the house he made windowes, broad without, and narrowe within.
George Lamsa Translation
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
Amplified Bible
He also made framed (artistic) window openings for the house.
Hebrew Names Version
For the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And for the house he made windows broad within, and narrow without.
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.
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.
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.
Lexham English Bible
And he made for the temple specially designed framed windows,
English Standard Version
And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.
New American Standard Bible
Also for the house he made windows with artistic frames.
New Century Version
The Temple also had windows that opened and closed.
Good News Translation
The walls of the Temple had openings in them, narrower on the outside than on the inside.
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.

Contextual Overview

1 Solomon began to build the temple for the Lord in the four hundred eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of his reign over Israel, in the second month, in the month of Ziv. 2 The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 3 The portico in front of the temple sanctuary was 30 feet long extending across the temple's width, and 15 feet deep in front of the temple. 4 He also made windows with beveled frames for the temple. 5 He then built a chambered structure along the temple wall, encircling the walls of the temple, that is, the sanctuary and the inner sanctuary. And he made side chambers all around. 6 The lowest chamber was 7½ feet wide, the middle was nine feet wide, and the third was 10½ feet wide. He also provided offset ledges for the temple all around the outside so that nothing would be inserted into the temple walls. 7 The temple's construction used finished stones cut at the quarry so that no hammer, chisel, or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built. 8 The door for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the temple. They went up a stairway to the middle chamber, and from the middle to the third. 9 When he finished building the temple, he paneled it with boards and planks of cedar. 10 He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams; each story was 7½ feet high.

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 you are to make it: The ark will be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.
Genesis 6:20
Two of everything—from the birds according to their kinds, from the livestock according to their kinds, and from the animals that crawl on the ground according to their kinds—will come to you so that you can keep them alive.
Genesis 6:21
Take with you every kind of food that is eaten; gather it as food for you and for them."
Genesis 6:22
And Noah did this. He did everything that God had commanded him.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
Numbers 13:33
We even saw the Nephilim there—the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim! To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them."
Numbers 16:2
250 prominent Israelite men who were leaders of the community and representatives in the assembly, and they rebelled against Moses.
Deuteronomy 3:11
(Only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed was made of iron. Isn't it in Rabbah of the Ammonites? It is 13 feet six inches long and six feet wide by a standard measure.)
1 Samuel 17:4
Then a champion named Goliath, from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was nine feet, nine inches tall

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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