And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
The setting is the house of the forest of Lebanon, a royal building whose construction displayed careful order and symmetry. Its doors and posts were made square rather than arched or irregular, giving the entrances a uniform, four-sided form. Its windows were placed in three distinct ranks or rows, arranged so that each window stood directly opposite another window. This facing arrangement of window against window allowed light to meet light across the interior spaces. Such precise and repeated design belonged to the magnificence of Solomon's ambitious court, expressing wealth, planning, and grandeur in his building works.
The setting is the house of the forest of Lebanon, a royal building whose construction displayed careful order and symmetry. Its doors and posts were made square rather than arched or irregular, giving the entrances a uniform, four-sided form. Its windows were placed in three distinct ranks or rows, arranged so that each window stood directly opposite another window. This facing arrangement of window against window allowed light to meet light across the interior spaces. Such precise and repeated design belonged to the magnificence of Solomon's ambitious court, expressing wealth, planning, and grandeur in his building works.