1 Kings 6:4

_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 bars or lattices being inserted in the walls, or the beams could not be opened and shut at pleasure. They were necessary, partly to let out the vapour of the lamps, the smoke of the frankincense, and partly to give light. [The Septuagint has: kai epoieese too oikoo thuridas parakuptomenas kruptas, and he made concealed windows (holes), curved within - i:e., windows narrow without and wide within (Song of Solomon 2:9; made concealed windows (holes), curved within - i:e., windows narrow without and wide within ...

1-10 The temple is called the house of the Lord, because it was directed and modelled by him, and was to be employed in his service. This gave it the beauty of holiness, that it was the house of the Lord, which was far beyond all other beauties. It was to be the temple of the God of peace, therefore no iron tool must be heard; quietness and silence suit and help religious exercises. God's work should be done with much care and little noise. Clamour and violence often hinder, but never further the work of God. Thus the kingdom of God in the heart of man grows up in silence, Mark 5:27....

Verse 1 Kings 6:4. _WINDOWS OF NARROW LIGHTS._] The _Vulgate_ says, _fenestras_ _obliquas_, oblique windows; but what sort of windows could such be? The Hebrew is חלוני שקפים אטמים _challoney shekuphim atumim,_ _windows to look through, which shut_. Probably latticed windows: windows through which a person within could see well; but a person without, nothing. _Windows_, says the Targum, _which were open within_ _and shut without_. Does he mean _windows_ with _shutters_; or, are we to understand, with the Arabic, windows opening wide within, and narrow on the outside; such as we still see in ancient castles? This sense our _margin_ expresses. We hear nothing of _glass_ or any other _diaphanous_ substance. Windows, perhaps originally _windore_, a _door_ to let the _wind_ in, in order to ventil

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 lattices.” The windows seem to have been placed high in the walls, above the chambers spoken of in 1 Kings 6:5....

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 narrative with a precise statement of the date of its erection (1 Kings 6:1); then follows (1) a description of the shape, size, and arrangement of the exterior (1 Kings 6:2), and (2) a detailed account of its internal fittings and adornments (1 Kings 6:15-11). The promise made to Solomon during its erection finds a place in 1 Kings 6:11; while the vessels,

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 them, or shut when they pleased; the Targum is, "open within, and shut without;'' or, as others understand it, they were wide within, and narrow without; by being narrow without, the house was preserved from bad weather, as well as could not so easily be looked into by those without; and by being broader within, the light that was let in spread itself within the house; which some interpret only of the holy place, the most holy place having, as they suppose, no windows in it, which yet is not certain: now these windows may denote the word and ordinances of the church of God, whereby light is communicated to men; which in the present state is but narrow or small, in comparison of the new Jerusa...

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 spiritual deterioration of the people, and Jehovah's condescension to it in grace....

CHAPTER 6THE DESCRIPTION OF THE TEMPLE _ 1. The date of the beginning of the building (1 Kings 6:1)_ 2. The house, the porches and side chambers (1 Kings 6:2) 3. The divine charge (1 Kings 6:11) 4. The internal arrangements (1 Kings 6:15) 5. The cherubim (1 Kings 6:23) 6. The doors (1 Kings 6:31) 7. The inner court and the temple finished ...

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 the Zion captured by David (2 Samuel 5), but the site was purchased by him from Ornan, or Araunah, the Jebusite (2 Samuel 24:18). It is marked by an outcrop of rock, now called the _Sakrah._ The Temple hill is divided from the Upper City on the western hill by a valley called the Tyropœ an (cheese-makers). The Temple was part of a great scheme of building which has been restored by Stade, whose reconstruction is now generally adopted in descriptions of early Jerusalem. To understand aright the difficult account of Solomon's buildings in these Chapter s, Ezekiel's restored Temple (Ezekiel 40-48) and Josephus'sketch of Herod's Temple (_Wars,_...

_windows of narrow lights_ It is not easy to explain the nature of these windows from the words used to describe them. They were apparently windows made by overlaid woodwork, either in the fashion of sloping louvre boards or fashioned like latticework crosswise. Then the last word indicates that they were closed in some way or other. Hence the margins of the A.V. -windows broad _within and_narrow _without_" or -skewed _and_closed." The former of these margins the R.V. has preserved, but gives in the text WINDOWS OF FIXED LATTICEWORK, taking the word -closed" to imply the permanent nature of the woodwork in the apertures. These windows were in the wall, above the roof of the chambers which are described in the next verse, and must have been of the nature of the clerestory windows which overlook the aisles of a church. There could have been only very little light from them, but the buildin...