Proverbs 7:17
I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
In Context
16I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
18Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
Cross References
Exodus 30:23And thou, take best spices of liquid myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon the half two hundred and fifty, and of sweet myrtle two hundred and fifty,
Psalms 45:9Kings' daughters are among thine honourable women; upon thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
Song of Solomon 4:13Thy shoots are a paradise of pomegranates, with precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants;
Isaiah 57:7Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither didst thou go up 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 →