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Parlour: (from the Fr. parler, "to speak") denotes an "audience chamber," but
that is not the import of the Hebrew word so rendered. It corresponds
to what the Turks call a kiosk, as in
(Judges 3:20) (the "summer
parlour"), or as in the margin of the Revised Version ("the upper
chamber of cooling"), a small room built on the roof of the house,
with open windows to catch the breeze, and having a door
communicating with the outside by which persons seeking an audience
may be admitted. While Eglon was resting in such a parlour, Ehud,
under pretence of having a message from God to him, was admitted into
his presence, and murderously plunged his dagger into his body
(Judges 3:21,22) The "inner parlours" in
(1 Chronicles 28:11) were the small
rooms or chambers which Solomon built all round two sides and one end
of the temple
(1 Kings 6:5) "side chambers;" or they may have been, as
some think, the porch and the holy place. In
(1 Samuel 9:22) the Revised
Version reads "guest chamber," a chamber at the high place specially
used for sacrificial feasts.
