New English Translation
1 Kings 6:4
4He made framed windows for the temple.
1 Kings 6:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
- New International Version (NIV)He made narrow windows high up in the temple walls.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And he made for the house windows with recessed frames.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And he made for the house windows with beveled frames.
Context of 1 Kings 6:4
2The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high. 3The porch in front of the main hall of the temple was 30 feet long, corresponding to the width of the temple. It was 15 feet wide, extending out from the front of the temple. He made framed windows for the temple. 5He built an extension all around the walls of the temple’s main hall and holy place and constructed side rooms in it. 6The bottom floor of the extension was seven and a half feet wide, the middle floor nine feet wide, and the third floor ten and a half feet wide. He made ledges on the temple’s outer walls so the beams would not have to be inserted into the walls.
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וַיַּ֣עַשׂ לַבָּ֔יִת חַלּוֹנֵ֖י שְׁקֻפִ֥ים אֲטֻמִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for 1 Kings 6:4
- Ezekiel 40:16There were closed windows toward the alcoves and toward their jambs within the gate all around, and likewise for the porches. There were windows all around the inside, and on each jamb were decorative palm trees.
- Ezekiel 41:26There were narrow windows and decorative palm trees on either side of the side walls of the porch; this is what the side chambers of the temple and the canopies were like.
Commentaries on 1 Kings 6:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Windows of narrow lights - The Vulgate says, fenestras obliquas, oblique windows; but what sort of windows could such be? The Hebrew is אטמים שקפים חלוני 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…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Windows 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.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-4Unlike the tabernacle, the temple had an entry room (or porch) on the east side and two freestanding pillars in front of the entrance (1 Kings 7:15–22).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. windows of narrow lights--that is, windows with lattices, capable of being shut and opened at pleasure, partly to let out the vapor of the lamps, the smoke of the frankincense, and partly to give light [Keil]. 1Ki 6:5-10. The Chambers Thereof.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Kings 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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