1 Kings 6:4

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.

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.

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.

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 So in the month of Ziv, the second month of the year, during Solomon's fourth year as king, he began work on the Temple. This was 480 years after the Israelites left Egypt. ² The Temple was 60 cubits long, 20 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high. ³ The porch of the Temple was 20 cubits long and 10 cubits wide. The porch ran along the front of the main part of the Temple itself. Its length was equal to the width of the Temple. ⁴ There were narrow windows in the Temple. These windows were smaller on the inside of the wall than on the outside. ⁵ Then Solomon built a row of rooms around the main part of the Temple. This row of rooms was three stories tall with the rooms built one above the other. ⁶ The rooms touched the Temple wall, but their beams were not built into that wall. The Temple wall became thinner at the top, so the rooms on the upper floors were larger than the ones below them. The rooms on the bottom floor were 5 cubits wide. The rooms on the middle floor were 6 cubits wide. The rooms above that were 7 cubits wide. ⁷ The stones were completely finished before they were brought into the Temple area, so there was no noise of hammers, axes, or any other iron tools in the Temple. ⁸ The entrance to these rooms was on bottom floor at the south side of the Temple. Inside there were stairs that went up to the second floor and from there to the third floor. ⁹ Solomon finished building the main part of the Temple and then covered it inside with cedar boards. ¹⁰ Then he finished building the rooms around the Temple. Each story was 5 cubits tall. The cedar beams in these rooms rested on a ledge of the Temple wall.

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 the size I want you to make the boat: 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high.

Genesis 6:20
Two of every kind of bird, animal, and creeping thing will come to you so that you might keep them alive.

Genesis 6:21
Also bring every kind of food into the boat, for you and for the animals."

Genesis 6:22
Noah did everything God commanded him.

Genesis 11:4
Then the people said, "Let's build ourselves a city and a tower that will reach to the sky. Then we will be famous. This will keep us together so that we will not be scattered all over the earth."

Numbers 13:33
We saw the giant Nephilim people there! (The descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim.) We felt like little grasshoppers. Yes, we were like grasshoppers to them!"

Numbers 16:2
These four men gathered 250 other men from Israel together and came against Moses. They were leaders who had been chosen by the people. All the people knew them.

Deuteronomy 3:11
(Og was the king of Bashan. He was one of the few Rephaites still alive. His bed was made from iron, and it was over 13 feet long and 6 feet wide. The bed is still in the city of Rabbah, where the Ammonites live.)

1 Samuel 17:4
The Philistines had a champion fighter named Goliath, who was from Gath. He was over 9 feet tall. Goliath came out of the Philistine camp.

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.