1 Kings 7:5

5 All the doorways ^[a] had rectangular frames, with the openings facing one another in three tiers.

1 Kings 7:5 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 7:5

And all the doors and posts were square with the windows
The doors into the several stories and apartments, and the posts and lintel of them, and the windows over them, were all square:

and light was against light in three ranks;
they answered one another as before.

1 Kings 7:5 In-Context

3 The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

4 There were three rows of high windows facing one another in three tiers.

5 All the doorways had rectangular frames, with the openings facing one another in three tiers.

6 Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.

7 In addition, he built a hall for the throne, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge. It was paneled with cedar from floor to ceiling.

Footnotes

• [a] Literally doorways and doorposts