1 Kings 7:5
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New International Version (©2011)
All the doorways had rectangular frames; they were in the front part in sets of three, facing each other.

New Living Translation (©2007)
All the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames and were arranged in sets of three, facing each other.

English Standard Version (©2001)
All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
All the doorways and doorposts had squared artistic frames, and window was opposite window in three ranks.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
All the doors and doorposts had rectangular frames, the openings facing each other in three tiers.

International Standard Version (©2012)
All the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames, with the doorways facing each other in three tiers.

NET Bible (©2006)
All of the entrances were rectangular in shape and they were arranged in sets of three.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
All the doors and doorframes were square. There were three doors facing each other on opposite sides [of the palace].

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and window was opposite window in three tiers.

American King James Version
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.

American Standard Version
And all the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And looking one upon another, with equal space between the pillars, and over the pillars were square beams in- all things equal.

Darby Bible Translation
And all the doors and posts were square, with an architrave; and window was against window in three ranks.

English Revised Version
And all the doors and posts were square in prospect: and light was over against light in three ranks.

Webster's Bible Translation
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.

World English Bible
All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.

Young's Literal Translation
And all the openings and the side-posts are square -- windows; and sight is over-against sight three times.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

7:1-12 All Solomon's buildings, though beautiful, were intended for use. Solomon began with the temple; he built for God first, and then his other buildings. The surest foundations of lasting prosperity are laid in early piety. He was thirteen years building his house, yet he built the temple in little more than seven years; not that he was more exact, but less eager in building his own house, than in building God's. We ought to prefer God's honour before our own ease and satisfaction.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - And all the doors and posts [For מְזוּזֹת posts, Thenius would read מֶהְזות outlooks, after ver. 4, which seems a natural emendation, especially as the LXX. has χῶραι. We should then get the sense of "doors and windows "] were square of beam. [The word translated "windows" in ver. 4; the proper rendering is beam, and the meaning apparently is that all these openings were square in shape. Nothing is said about the height of the rooms, and as the commentators are not agreed whether there was one story or three, that can obviously be only matter of conjecture. Rawlinson, who thinks of but one hall, with three rows of windows, supposes, after Houbigant, that one row was placed in a wall which ran down the middle of the apartment. Such an arrangement, he observes, was found by Layard at Nimrud.]

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And all the doors and posts were square with the windows,.... The doors into the several stories and apartments, and the posts and lintel of them, and the windows over them, were all square:

and light was against light in three ranks; they answered one another as before.

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Solomon Builds his Palace
…4And 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. …

Exodus 12:7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.
1 Kings 7:4 Its windows were placed high in sets of three, facing each other.
1 Kings 7:6 He made a colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty wide. In front of it was a portico, and in front of that were pillars and an overhanging roof.