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On each end of the long hall were three rows of windows facing each other.

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

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26 On both sides of the entry room were recessed windows decorated with carved palm trees. The side rooms along the outside wall also had roofs.

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26 On the sidewalls of the portico were narrow windows with palm trees carved on each side. The side rooms of the temple also had overhangs.(A)

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36 The guard alcoves, dividing walls, and entry room of this gateway had the same measurements as in the others and the same window arrangements. The gateway passage measured 87 1⁄2 feet long and 43 3⁄4 feet wide.

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36 as did its alcoves,(A) its projecting walls and its portico, and it had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

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33 Its guard alcoves, dividing walls, and entry room were the same size as those of the others, and there were windows along the walls and in the entry room. The gateway passage measured 87 1⁄2 feet long and 43 3⁄4 feet wide.

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33 Its alcoves,(A) its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as the others. The gateway and its portico had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

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29 Its guard alcoves, dividing walls, and entry room were the same size as those in the others. It also had windows along its walls and in the entry room. And like the others, the gateway passage was 87 1⁄2 feet long and 43 3⁄4 feet wide.

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29 Its alcoves,(A) its projecting walls and its portico had the same measurements as the others. The gateway and its portico had openings all around. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.(B)

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25 It had windows along the walls as the others did, and there was an entry room where the gateway passage opened into the outer courtyard. And like the others, the gateway passage was 87 1⁄2 feet long and 43 3⁄4 feet wide between the back walls of facing guard alcoves.

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25 The gateway and its portico had narrow openings all around, like the openings of the others. It was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.(A)

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22 The windows, the entry room, and the palm tree decorations were identical to those in the east gateway. There were seven steps leading up to the gateway entrance, and the entry room was at the inner end of the gateway passage.

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22 Its openings, its portico(A) and its palm tree decorations had the same measurements as those of the gate facing east. Seven steps led up to it, with its portico opposite them.(B)

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16 There were recessed windows that narrowed inward through the walls of the guard alcoves and their dividing walls. There were also windows in the entry room. The surfaces of the dividing walls were decorated with carved palm trees.

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16 The alcoves and the projecting walls inside the gateway were surmounted by narrow parapet openings all around, as was the portico; the openings all around faced inward. The faces of the projecting walls were decorated with palm trees.(A)

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12 I will make your towers of sparkling rubies,
    your gates of shining gems,
    and your walls of precious stones.

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12 I will make your battlements of rubies,
    your gates(A) of sparkling jewels,
    and all your walls of precious stones.

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

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Footnotes

  1. 7:5 Greek version reads windows.

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

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 7:5 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.

Solomon also made narrow recessed windows throughout the Temple.

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He made narrow windows(A) high up in the temple walls.

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