Proverbs 7:17
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
In Context
16I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt.
Cross References
Exodus 30:23Saying: Take spices, of principal and chosen myrrh five hundred sicles, and of cinnamon half so much; that is, two hundred and fifty sicles, of calamus in like manner two hundred and fifty,
Psalms 45:9Come and behold ye the works of the Lord: what wonders he hath done upon earth,
Song of Solomon 4:13Thy plants are a paradise of pomegranates with the fruits of the orchard. Cypress with spikenard.
Isaiah 57:7Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims.
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 →