1 Kings 7:5

5 All the doorways had rectangular frames; they were in the front part in sets of three, facing each other.^[a]

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1 Kings 7:5 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)

5 And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.

English Standard Version (ESV)

5 All the doorways and windows had square frames, and window was opposite window in three tiers.

New Living Translation (NLT)

5 All the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames and were arranged in sets of three, facing each other.

The Message Bible (MSG)

5 All the doors were rectangular and arranged symmetrically.

American Standard Version (ASV)

5 And all the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.

GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)

5 All the doors and doorframes were square. There were three doors facing each other on opposite sides [of the palace].

Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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

New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

5 All of the doorways had frames that were shaped like rectangles. They were in front. They were in groups of three. And they faced each other.

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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

1 Kings 7:5 In-Context

3 It was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the columns—forty-five beams, fifteen to a row.

4 Its windows were placed high in sets of three, facing each other.

5 All the doorways had rectangular frames; they were in the front part in sets of three, facing each other.

6 He made a colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty wide. In front of it was a portico, and in front of that were pillars and an overhanging roof.

7 He built the throne hall, the Hall of Justice, where he was to judge, and he covered it with cedar from floor to ceiling.

Footnotes 1

[a]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.

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