1 Kings 6:4
in 1 Kings 6He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.
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ASV
And for the house he made windows of fixed lattice-work.
KJV
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
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This verse in 1 Kings 6
Commentary
7 notes on this verseThe windows of the temple are the holy teachers and all the spiritual people in the church to whom when in divine ecstasy it is granted more specially than to the others to see the hidden mysteries of heaven. And when they reveal publicly to …
This site's exposition
the length thereof was threescore cubits
on 1 Kings 6:2-6
Solomon's house measures sixty cubits long, twenty broad and thirty high: length and breadth run exactly double the tabernacle's thirty by ten of Exodus 26, the height risen higher still, from the tabernacle's ten cubits to thirty. The porch, the narrow windows and the three tiers of side chambers wrap the house without cutting into its own walls, resting instead on ledges built into the outer wall so that no beam is fastened into the sanctuary's stone. The chambers widen with each story, five cubits, then six, then seven, a detail the text records without saying why.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Such should the eyes of our mind be, reflecting nearer on ourselves than on other people, looking much within, to judge ourselves, but little without, to censure our brethren. The narrowness of the lights intimated the darkness of that dispensation, in comparison with the gospel day. The chambers are described (
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And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
The Nineteenth Century3 voices
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.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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].
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A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
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 1Ki 6:5-8.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּ֣עַשׂ | vaiyaas | and he made | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| לַבָּ֔יִת | labayit | for the house | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| חַלּוֹנֵ֖י | chalonei | windows of | H2474 → | |
| שְׁקֻפִ֥ים | shekufim | frames | H8261 → | |
| אֲטֻמִֽים׃ | ʾatumim | shut | H331 → |
וַיַּ֣עַשׂand he made
vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times
לַבָּ֔יִתfor the house
labayitH1004 →2046 times
חַלּוֹנֵ֖יwindows of
chaloneiH2474 →
שְׁקֻפִ֥יםframes
shekufimH8261 →
אֲטֻמִֽים׃shut
ʾatumimH331 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ezekiel 40:16The gate chambers and their side pillars had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticos also had windows all around on the inside. Each side pillar was decorated with palm…
it leads to
- 2 Chronicles 3:5
He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 41:26
There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies.
- 2 Chronicles 3:5
Through
Ezekiel 41:26There were beveled windows and palm trees on the sidewalls of the portico. The side rooms of the temple also had canopies.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 40:16
The gate chambers and their side pillars had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway. The porticos also had windows all around on the inside. Each side pillar was decorated with palm…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Ezekiel 41:16
as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground…
- Ezekiel 40:16
Through
Song of Solomon 2:9My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
it leads to
- Song of Solomon 8:14
Come away, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.
- Song of Solomon 2:17
Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
- Song of Solomon 8:14
Through
Ezekiel 41:16as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 40:25
Both the gateway and its portico had windows all around, like the other windows. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.
- 1 Kings 6:15
He lined the interior walls with cedar paneling from the floor of the temple to the ceiling, and he covered the floor with cypress boards.
- Ezekiel 40:25
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About 1 Kings
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Of the Temple of Solomon 1.7.1; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.