And all the doors and postswere 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 1 Kings 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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