All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was facing window in three ranks.
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All the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was facing window in three ranks.
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And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
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And all the doors with their posts were square in the frame; and light was over against light in three ranks.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 7:5 And all the doors and posts [were]…
1Ki 7:5 And all the doors and posts [were] square, with the windows: and light [was] against light [in] three ranks.
Ver. 5. With the windows.] All were square: and so this house was, ad elegantiam, amaenitatem et recreationem tota comparata, very pleasant.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He speaks either, first, of the same lights mentioned…
He speaks either, first, of the same lights mentioned 1Ki 7:4, it being the manner of the Hebrews to repeat the same things; or rather, of the smaller windows or lights, which were over the several doors, as the manner of many buildings is.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And he made a porch of pillars,.... At the…
And he made a porch of pillars,.... At the west end of the house:
and the length thereof was fifty cubits; answerable to the breadth of the house:
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and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: which, added to the length of the house, made it one hundred and thirty:
and the porch was before them; the four rows of cedar pillars of the house, Kg1 7:2 this porch was either for his guards to keep watch in; or for his courtiers to walk in, sheltered from rain or the like; or perhaps only for grandeur and magnificence:
and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them; the pillars of the porch, on which were laid beams of cedar for a storey over them, and so on; these were before and right against, and answered to the pillars of the house.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Windows - He speaks, of smaller windows or lights,…
Windows - He speaks, of smaller windows or lights, which were over the several doors.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain All the doors and posts - The doorways, and…
All the doors and posts - The doorways, and the posts which formed them, seem to be intended. These were square at top, not arched or rounded. In Assyrian buildings arched doorways were not uncommon. The doorways also, like the windows, exactly faced one another.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 5. All the doors — Which led from one…
5. All the doors — Which led from one of these chambers to another. (d d in cut.)
And posts — מזוזת, posts, is undoubtedly a copyist’s error, and for it we should read, as did the Septuagint translators, מחזות, apertures, described in the preceding verse.
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Were square, with the windows — Here, again, the translation is erroneous. שׁק does not mean windows, but a layer of beams; that is, a beam framework. Render: And all the doors and the apertures were of squared beamwork. They were built in square form, and not arched.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. And all the doors and posts were square,…
5. And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows] It is not easy to say how the last word of the Hebrew should be rendered. It is akin to that rendered ‘windows’ by the A.V. in 1Ki_7:4. Hence a like meaning has been assigned to it here. But there is nothing in the original to represent ‘with the.’ The R.V. used prospects in the previous verse, and so gives here were square in prospects, adding in the margin ‘were made square with beams.’ Taking these ‘beams’ to signify, as before, the ‘framework’ of the doorways, the sense would be ‘were set square in the framework,’ i.e. of the doorways.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And all the doors and posts For tzOWzm posts,…
And all the doors and posts For tzOWzm posts, Thenius would read twOzhm, outlooks, after ver. 4, which seems a natural emendation, especially as the LXX has cwrai. 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.
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C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Or, spaces and pillars were square in prospect.
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Or, spaces and pillars were square in prospect.
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