1 Kings 7:5

5 The doorways and the windows had rectangular frames, and the three rows of windows in each wall faced the opposite rows.

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

4 On each of the two side walls there were three rows of windows.
5 The doorways and the windows had rectangular frames, and the three rows of windows in each wall faced the opposite rows.
6 The Hall of Columns was 75 feet long and 45 feet wide. It had a covered porch, supported by columns.
7 The Throne Room, also called the Hall of Judgment, where Solomon decided cases, had cedar panels from the floor to the rafters.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. [One ancient translation] windows; [Hebrew] doorposts.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.