Proverbs 7:16
My bed is made, covered with colorful linens from Egypt.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
In Context
15That's why I came out to meet you. I was looking for you and now I've found you!
17I've sprinkled perfume on my bed—myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Cross References
Proverbs 31:22She makes herself bedspreads; she dresses in fine linen and purple clothes.
Song of Solomon 3:7Look, it's Solomon's sedan chair, accompanied by sixty of Israel's best warriors.
Ezekiel 27:7They made your sail with the best linen from Egypt—this was your flag that everyone recognized. They used cloth dyed blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah to make your awnings.
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 →