1 Kings 7:4 Its windows were placed high in sets of three, facing each other.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Its windows were placed high in sets of three, facing each other.

English Standard Version
There were window frames in three rows, and window opposite window in three tiers.

New American Standard Bible
There were artistic window frames in three rows, and window was opposite window in three ranks.

King James Bible
And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There were three rows of window frames, facing each other in three tiers.

International Standard Version
with three rows of framed windows facing each other in three ranks.

American Standard Version
And there were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Set one against another,

Darby Bible Translation
And there were cross-beams in three rows, and window was against window in three ranks.

Young's Literal Translation
And windows are in three rows, and sight is over-against sight three times.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

1Ki 7:2-7. Of the House of Lebanon.

2. He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon—It is scarcely possible to determine whether this was a different edifice from the former, or whether his house, the house of the forest of Lebanon, and the one for Pharaoh's daughter, were not parts of one grand palace. As difficult is it to decide what was the origin of the name; some supposing it was so called because built on Lebanon; others, that it was in or near Jerusalem, but contained such a profuse supply of cedar columns as to have occasioned this peculiar designation. We have a similar peculiarity of name in the building called the East India house, though situated in London. The description is conformable to the arrangement of Eastern palaces. The building stood in the middle of a great oblong square, which was surrounded by an enclosing wall, against which the houses and offices of those attached to the court were built. The building itself was oblong, consisting of two square courts, flanking a large oblong hall which formed the center, and was one hundred cubits long, by fifty broad. This was properly the house of the forest of Lebanon, being the part where were the cedar pillars of this hall. In front was the porch of judgment, which was appropriated to the transaction of public business. On the one side of this great hall was the king's house; and on the other the harem or royal apartments for Pharaoh's daughter (Es 2:3, 9). This arrangement of the palace accords with the Oriental style of building, according to which a great mansion always consists of three divisions, or separate houses—all connected by doors and passages—the men dwelling at one extremity, the women of the family at the other, while public rooms occupy the central part of the building.