1 Kings 7:5
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
1 Kings 7:5 in other translations
| BSB | All the doorways had rectangular frames, with the openings facing one another in three tiers. |
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| WEB | All the doors and posts were made square with beams; and window was facing window in three ranks. |
| ASV | And all the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks. |
| YLT | And all the openings and the side-posts are square--windows; and sight is over-against sight three times. |
| DARBY | And all the doors and posts were square, with an architrave; and window was against window in three ranks. |
| BBE | And all the doors and windows had square frames, with the windows facing one another in three lines. |
| Webster | And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks. |
What does 1 Kings 7:5 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Kings 7:1-12
All Solomon's buildings, though beautiful, were intended for use. Solomon began with the temple; he built for God first, and then his other buildings. The surest foundations of lasting prosperity are laid in early piety. He was thirteen years building his house, yet he built the temple in little more than seven years; not that he was more exact, but less eager in building his own house, than in building God's. We…
1 Kings 7:5 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- 1 Kings 7:4
And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.
- 1 Kings 7:5
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
- 1 Kings 7:6
And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.
1 Kings 7:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y todas las puertas y postes eran cuadrados: y las unas ventanas estaban frente á las otras en tres órdenes. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et toutes les entrées et les poteaux étaient carrés, avec une architrave, un jour répondant à un jour, trois fois. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und alle Türöffnungen und Pfosten waren viereckig, mit Gebälk, und Fenster gegen Fenster, dreimal. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | et e regione se respicientes, æquali spatio inter columnas, et super columnas quadrangulata ligna in cunctis æqualia. |