Song of Solomon 8:9
If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.
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Song of Solomon 1:11We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.
Isaiah 58:12And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.
Isaiah 61:4And they will be building again the old broken walls, and will make new the old waste places, and will put up again the towns which have been waste for long generations.
Matthew 16:18And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.
Acts 15:16After these things I will come back, and will put up the tent of David which has been broken down, building up again its broken parts and making it complete:
Ephesians 2:20Resting on the base of the Apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief keystone,
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 8:9-13
Concern for the Gentiles; Privileges and Duties of the Church. 8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? 9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar. 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour. 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof… Read the whole commentary →