And the doore posts] Or the thresholds in the porch, and doore of either house. and narrow windowes] Either the small windowes in the arches of the cloysters, or the windows narrow without to receive the light, and broad within to dilate and disperse it, as 1 Kings 6:4. ver against the door cieled with wood] Or, cieling of wood. Or before the threshold overlaid with boards, which the Chaldee determineth boards of Cedars: this threshold seemeth to be that, that was as the halfe pace or bottome of the turning stairs that led into the chambers. and from the ground up to the windows] Or, and the ground unto the windows. All these particulars mentioned had coverings, penthouses, or weatherboards over them to keep off the raine from the walls, and from the thresholds. The side buildings had so at their severall stories, the windowes had so over them, and so likewise under them or at their stooles, to keep the wall betwixt that and the ground unbeaten of the weather.