1 Kings 7:5

5 All the doors and doorposts had rectangular frames, the openings facing each other[a] in three tiers.[b]

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 It was paneled above with cedar at the top of the chambers that [rested] on 45 pillars, fifteen per row.
4 There were three rows of window frames, facing each other in three tiers.
5 All the doors and doorposts had rectangular frames, the openings facing each other in three tiers.
6 He made the hall of pillars 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. A portico was in front of the pillars, and a canopy with pillars was in front of them.
7 He made the Hall of the Throne where he would judge-the Hall of Judgment. It was paneled with cedar from the floor to the rafters.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Lit frames, opposing window to window
  • [b]. Lit three times; at 3 different places
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