1 Kings 6:4

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2 Now ^athe house which King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits, its width twenty, and its height thirty cubits.

3 The vestibule in front of the¹ sanctuary of the house was twenty cubits long across the width of the house, and the width of³ the vestibule extended ten cubits from the front of the house.

4 And he made for the house ^awindows with beveled frames.

5 Against the wall of the¹ temple he built ^achambers all around, against the walls of the temple, all around the sanctuary ^band the inner sanctuary. Thus he made side chambers all around it.

6 The lowest chamber was five cubits wide, the middle was six cubits wide, and the third was seven cubits wide; for he made narrow ledges around the outside of the temple, so that the support beams would not be fastened into the walls of the¹ temple.

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Adam Clarke

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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 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.

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