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Selected Verse: 1 Kings 6:4 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Ki 6:4 |
Strong Concordance |
And for the house [01004] he made [06213] windows [02474] of narrow [0331] lights [08261]. |
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King James |
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| 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]. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| 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 Kg1 6:5-8. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
windows of narrow lights
Compare (Ch2 4:20).
In the holy of holies in the tabernacle no light but the shekinah glory was provided. In many ways Solomon's temple manifests the spiritual deterioration of the people, and Jehovah's condescension to it in grace. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Narrow - Narrow outward, to prevent the inconveniences of the weather; widening by degrees inward, that so the house might better receive, and more disperse the light. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
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. |
5 And against the wall [07023] of the house [01004] he built [01129] chambers [03326] [03326] round about [05439], against the walls [07023] of the house [01004] round about [05439], both of the temple [01964] and of the oracle [01687]: and he made [06213] chambers [06763] round about [05439]:
6 The nethermost [08481] chamber [03326] [03326] was five [02568] cubits [0520] broad [07341], and the middle [08484] was six [08337] cubits [0520] broad [07341], and the third [07992] was seven [07651] cubits [0520] broad [07341]: for without in the wall of [02351] the house [01004] he made [05414] narrowed rests [04052] round about [05439], that the beams should not be fastened [0270] in the walls [07023] of the house [01004].
7 And the house [01004], when it was in building [01129], was built [01129] of stone [068] made ready [08003] before it was brought [04551] thither: so that there was neither hammer [04717] nor axe [01631] nor any tool [03627] of iron [01270] heard [08085] in the house [01004], while it was in building [01129].
8 The door [06607] for the middle [08484] chamber [06763] was in the right [03233] side [03802] of the house [01004]: and they went up [05927] with winding stairs [03883] into the middle [08484] chamber, and out of the middle [08484] into the third [07992].
20 Moreover the candlesticks [04501] with their lamps [05216], that they should burn [01197] after the manner [04941] before [06440] the oracle [01687], of pure [05462] gold [02091];