TO LOOK DOWN, to look out — the verb for looking from a window. Abimelech looks through his window with it and sees Isaac with Rebekah (Genesis 26:8, already on these pages); Sisera's mother looks out for his chariot (Judges 5:28), Michal looks down on David dancing (2 Samuel 6:16), Jezebel paints her eyes and looks out at Jehu (2 Kings 9:30; none of the three yet on these pages). The noun shequphim is the word for Solomon's temple windows (1 Kings 6:4). ⭐ With God as its subject the Torah uses it twice: Jehovah looked down on the camp of Egypt and threw it into confusion (Exodus 14:24), and the tithe-payer's prayer, look down from your holy dwelling, from the heavens, and bless your people Israel (Deuteronomy 26:15) — the only imperative of the verb in the Bible, and the one time in the Torah the looking-down is asked for a blessing. The men leaving Abraham's tent looked down over the face of Sodom with it too (Genesis 18:16, already on these pages). ⚠ The rabbinic saying, in the Sifre and in Rashi at 26:15, that every looking-down in Scripture is for harm except this one, is reported here, not adopted: it holds for the lookings-down at Sodom and at Egypt, but Psalm 102:20 (not yet on these pages) has him look down from his holy height to hear a prisoner groan. → first discussed at Deut 26:15