◄ 1 Kings 6:4 ►
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Good News Translation
The walls of the Temple had openings in them, narrower on the outside than on the inside.

New Revised Standard Version
For the house he made windows with recessed frames.

Contemporary English Version
The windows were narrow on the outside but wide on the inside.

New American Bible
Windows with closed lattices were made for the house,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he made in the temple oblique windows.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he made in the temple oblique windows.

windows of narrow lights.

1 Kings 6:4 And he made in the temple oblique windows.

Songs 2:9 My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart. Behold he standeth behind our wall, looking through the windows, looking through the lattices.

Ezekiel 40:16 And slanting windows in the little chambers, and in their fronts, which were within the gate on every side round about: and in like manner there were also in the porches windows round about within, and before the fronts the representation of palm trees.

Ezekiel 41:26 Upon which were the oblique windows, and the representation of palm trees on this side, and on that side in the sides of the porch, according to the sides of the house, and the breadth of the walls.

Context
Temple Construction Begins
…3And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple. 4And he made in the temple oblique windows.
Cross References
1 Kings 6:3
And there was a porch before the temple, of twenty cubits in length, according to the measure of the breadth of the temple: and it was ten cubits in breadth, before the face of the temple.

Ezekiel 40:16
And slanting windows in the little chambers, and in their fronts, which were within the gate on every side round about: and in like manner there were also in the porches windows round about within, and before the fronts the representation of palm trees.

Ezekiel 41:16
The thresholds, and the oblique windows, and the galleries round about on three sides, over against the threshold of every one, and floored with wood all round about: and the ground was up to the windows, and the windows were shut over the doors.

1 Kings 6:3
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