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 Judg. 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 (21, 22)." "The "inner parlours" in 1 Chr. 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 Sam. 9:22 the Revised Version reads "guest chamber," a chamber at the high place specially used for sacrificial feasts.