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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 shekup...
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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
lattic...
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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...
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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 Z...
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_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...
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B. THE EXTERIOR OF THE HOUSE 6:2-10
TRANSLATION
(2) As for the house which King Solomon built for the LORD: sixty
cubits was its length and twenty cubits its breadth and thirty cubits
its height. (3)...
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_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 lattice...
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6:4 closed (c-7) * Or 'splayed' -- narrow without, broad within....
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THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE
In shape the Temple was a rectangular hall 60 x 20 x 30 cubits (a
cubit being about 18 inches). On its E. face it had a porch (forming
an entrance) which extended across...
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GOD’S LESSONS FROM HISTORY
1 KINGS
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 6
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE *TEMPLE
Solomon acted as the *temple’s architect. But the plans were not
his own. He used the plans that David...
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WINDOWS OF NARROW LIGHTS. — The marginal reading, “windows broad
within and narrow without” — splayed as in ordinary Gothic
architecture — is supported by very good authorities; but the most
probable...
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וַ יַּ֣עַשׂ לַ † בָּ֔יִת חַלֹּונֵ֖י
שְׁקֻפִ֥ים...
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1 Kings 6:1; 1 Kings 7:1
THE TEMPLE
1 Kings 5:1; 1 Kings 6:1;...
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BREAKING THREE COMMANDMENTS
1 Kings 21:1; 1 Kings 1:1; 1 Kings 2:1; 1 Kings 3:1;...
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THE PLAN OF THE LORD'S HOUSE
1 Kings 6:1
The Temple was twice the size of the Tabernacle-ninety feet long by
thirty feet broad, and forty-five feet high. The plan had been given
to David by revelatio...
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This chapter is full of interest, as it gives a somewhat detailed
description of the structure of the Temple. In all essentials its
actual central building was on the pattern of the Tabernacle. It was...
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Oblique windows. Which were made slanting, that the light might be
more easily communicated within. (Haydock) --- On the outside they
were not so large. (Worthington) (Menochius) --- Hebrew, "windows...
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(3) And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was
the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten
cubits was the breadth thereof before the house. (4) And for the...
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The books of First and Second Samuel show us the failure of the
priesthood, and, in consequence, when a state of evident shame and
dishonour overspread the face of Israel, the heart of the people
desi...
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The house may be looked at in two ways-as a type of the Father's
house, and as in fact the habitation of God on the earth when Jesus
reigns. In the latter aspect I only look for the grand thoughts and...
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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 the...
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And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.
Ver. 4. _And for the house he made windows of narrow lights._] Or,
Broad within and narrow without. Or, Skewed and closed, that is,
glazed, as R. J...
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_Windows of narrow lights_ Narrow without, to prevent the
inconveniences of the weather, and widening by degrees inwardly, that
the house might better receive, and more disperse, the light. The
tabern...
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1 The building of Solomons Temple.
5 The chambers thereof.
11 Gods promise vnto it.
15 The sieling and adorning of it:
23 The Cherubims.
31 The doores.
36 The court.
37 The time of building it....
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And for the house he made windows of narrow lights, set apparently
near the ceiling, with a wide opening on the inside, but gradually
becoming narrower toward the outside, and covered with heavy scree...
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THE BUILDING ITSELF...
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THE BUILDING OF THE TEMPLE
(vs.1-38)
The date of the beginning of the temple is given specifically in verse
1 as the 480th year after Israel had left Egypt, which was the 4th
year of Solomon's reign,...
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WINDOWS OF NARROW LIGHTS:
Or, windows broad within and narrow without, or, skewed and closed...
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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...
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Narrow outward, to prevent the inconveniences of the weather; widening
by degrees inward, that so the house might better receive and more
disperse the light. Or, _for prospect_, i.e. to give light; ye...
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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 dete...
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CONTENTS: Work on the temple begun. Dimensions and materials.
CHARACTERS: God, Solomon.
CONCLUSION: We should not mistake noise and notoriety for spiritual
progress (1 Kings 6:7). Quietness and orde...
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1 Kings 6:1. _In the four hundred and eightieth year._ The Hebrew, the
Chaldaic, and most of the Greek versions read as the English; yet some
difficulties occur. _Vide Poli in locum._ The following su...
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_He began to build the house of the Lord._
THE TEMPLE BUILT
Solomon’s temple is the most wonderful and interesting building in
the world’s history. It was “the mysterious centre of Israel.”
It was fa...
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NARROW LIGHTS
Windows of narrow lights (RV “windows of fixed lattice-work”). 1
Kings 6:4.
There seems to be a good deal of doubt as to what these windows were
like. In the Authorized Version of the...
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1 KINGS—NOTE ON 1 KINGS 6:1 With preparation for the temple
complete, the text describes the building and its furnishings. This is
interrupted in 1 Kings 7:1 by a description of the building of
Solomo...
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THE BUILDING OF SOLOMON’S TEMPLE
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.—
1 Kings 6:1. BEGAN TO BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD—The chronological
year is carefully noted, and no criticism supplies reason for cha...
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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...
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So in chapter six he began to build the temple.
In the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel
were come out of the land of Egypt, and in the fourth year of
Solomon's reign, in t...
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1 Kings 6:4; Ezekiel 40:16; Ezekiel 41:26; Song of Solomon 2:9...
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Narrow — Narrow outward, to prevent the inconveniences of the
weather; widening by degrees inward, that so the house might better
receive, and more disperse the light....