Verse 4
4. Windows in three rows Rather, The frameworks were three rows. The word שׁקפים does not mean windows, but is applied, in chap. 1 Kings 6:4, to the cross-bars or framework of windows. So here it means the framework of beams with which the three galleries were constructed. Each of these three rows of framework contained a row of fifteen chambers.
Light was against light מחזה , here translated light, means a place to see through, an aperture for the purpose of looking out, like those of the boxes in a theatre. These openings were against or opposite to each other, one in each chamber. (c c in cut.)
In three ranks Or, three times.
Corresponding to the three ranges of chambers. Each gallery had its row of openings looking out into the interior of the great hall below, and this interior may have been either open in the centre to the sky, or, as Alexander observes, the whole may have been roofed over, and lighted above by a clear story. The latter supposition is more probable.
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