“ And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. ”
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 l...
Description of Solomon's Temple. The Temple area is on the eastern hill of Jerusalem, which overlooks the valley of the Kidron, with the Mount of Olives on the opposite side. It was probably not th...
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. Windows of narrow lights - The Vulgate says, fenestras obliquas, oblique windows; but what sort of windows could such be? The Hebrew is חלוני שקפי...
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. Windows of narrow lights, х chalowneey ( H2474 ) shªqupiym ( H8261 )] - apertures with fixed bars, or closed lattices; i:e., the b...
The Construction of the Temple In shape the Temple was a rectangular hall 60 x 20 x 30 cubits (a cubit being about 18 inches). On its E. face it had a porch (forming an entrance) which extended ac...
Windows of narrow lights. — The marginal reading, “windows broad within and narrow without” — splayed as in ordinary Gothic architecture — is supported by very good authorities; but the most probab...
1 Kings 6:1-38 ; 1 Kings 7:1-51 THE TEMPLE 1 Kings 5:1-18 ; 1 Kings 6:1-38 ; 1 Kings 7:1-51 "And his next son, for wealth and wisdom famed, The clouded Ark of God, till then in tents Wan...
the Plan of the Lord's House 1 Kings 6:1-13 The Temple was twice the size of the Tabernacle-ninety feet long by thirty feet broad, and forty-five feet high. The plan had been given to David by...
This chapter is full of interest, as it gives a somewhat detailed description of the structure of the Temple. In all essentials its actual central building was on the pattern of the Tabernacle. It wa...
(3) And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house. (4) And for the...
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. Or "open, shut" o, which could be both, having shutters to them, to open or shut at pleasure; windows which they could open, and look through at...
And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. Ver. 4. And for the house he made windows of narrow lights. ] Or, Broad within and narrow without. Or, Skewed and closed, that is, glazed, as R....
Windows of narrow lights Narrow without, to prevent the inconveniences of the weather, and widening by degrees inwardly, that the house might better receive, and more disperse, the light. The taber...
THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE (vs.1-38) The date of the beginning of the temple is given specifically in verse 1 as the 480th year after Israel had left Egypt, which was the 4th year of Solomon's r...
The Building of the Temple. B. C. 1011. 1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and ei...
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. Or, for prospect , i.e. to give light; y...
THE BUILDING OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.— 1 Kings 6:1 . Began to build the house of the Lord —The chronological year is carefully noted, and no criticism supplies reason...
windows of narrow lights Compare ( 2 Chronicles 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 spi...
1 Kings 6:1 . In the four hundred and eightieth year. The Hebrew, the Chaldaic, and most of the Greek versions read as the English; yet some difficulties occur. Vide Poli in locum. The following...
He began to build the house of the Lord. The temple built Solomon’s temple is the most wonderful and interesting building in the world’s history. It was “the mysterious centre of Israel.” It wa...
EXPOSITION SOLOMON 'S TEMPLE .—The preparations for the building of the Temple having been related in the preceding chapter, the historian now proceeds to describe the edifice. He begins his n...
The Building Itself
1 Kings 6:4 ; Ezekiel 40:16 ; Ezekiel 41:26 ; Song of Solomon 2:9
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.