John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 5. And all the doors and posts were square with the windows , etc.] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 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 lai in early piety. He was thirteen years building his house, yet he buil 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 ought to prefer God's honour before our own ease and satisfaction.
Original Hebrew וכל3605 הפתחים6607 והמזוזות4201 רבעים7251 שׁקף8260 ומול4136 מחזה4237 אל413 מחזה4237 שׁלשׁ7969 פעמים׃6471
