1 Kings 7:4

1 Kings 7:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
• New International Version (NIV)Its windows were placed high in sets of three, facing each other.
• English Standard Version (ESV)There were window frames in three rows, and window opposite window in three tiers.
• New King James Version (NKJV)There were windows with beveled frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three tiers.

Context of 1 Kings 7:4

2He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars. 3And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks. 5And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks. 6And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

1 Kings 7:4 word by word

וּשְׁקֻפִ֖ים שְׁלֹשָׁ֣ה טוּרִ֑ים וּמֶחֱזָ֥ה אֶל־מֶחֱזָ֖ה שָׁלֹ֥שׁ פְּעָמִֽים׃Read the interlinear

• windowsשָׁקוּףshâqûph · frameH8261
• threeשָׁלֹשׁshâlôsh shâlôsh shelôshâh shelôshâh · threeH7969
• rowsטוּרţûr · rowH2905
• and lightמֶחֱזָהmechĕzâh · windowH4237
• ranksפַּ֫עַםpa‛am pa‛ămâh · beatH6471

Cross-references for 1 Kings 7:4

• 1 Kings 6:5And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
• 1 Kings 6:4And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
• Isaiah 54:12And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.
• Ezekiel 40:16And there were narrow windows to the little chambers, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches: and windows were round about inward: and upon each post were palm trees.
• Ezekiel 41:26And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side and on the other side, on the sides of the porch, and upon the side chambers of the house, and thick planks.

Commentaries on 1 Kings 7:4

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Either three ranges of windows, one above the other, on either side of the house; or perhaps the three ranges were one in either side wall, and the third in a wall down the middle of the hall, along the course of the midmost row of pillars. The windows were directly opposite one another, giving what we call a through light.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-5The House of the Forest of Lebanon got its name because it used a lot of cedar wood. It held 300 gold shields (1 Kings 10:16–17) and likely served as both a treasury and an armory (see 1 Kings 12:25–28; Isaiah 22:8). The Egyptian pharaoh Shishak later took the shields as loot (1 Kings 14:27).Read the comment

Topics related to 1 Kings 7:4

• Lebanon
• Palace
• Solomon

In the dictionaries

• Esarhaddon
• Light
• Palace
• Sea
• Solomon
• Unweighed
• Architecture
• Jerusalem
• King; Kingdom
• Kings, Books of

Commentaries on 1 Kings 7

• 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