Proverbs 7:17
I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
In Context
16My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;
18Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.
Cross References
Exodus 30:23Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,
Psalms 45:9\45:8\Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.
Song of Solomon 4:13The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,
Isaiah 57:7You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.
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 →