Proverbs 7:17
I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
In Context
16I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with love.
Cross References
Exodus 30:23Take thou also to thee the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty,
Psalms 45:9Kings' daughters are among thy honorable women. At thy right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.
Song of Solomon 4:13Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,
Isaiah 57:7Upon a high and lofty mountain thou have set thy bed. Thou also went up there to offer sacrifice.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:7-24
The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now… Read the whole commentary →