Proverbs 7:17
I have sprinkled my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
In Context
16With tapestry coverings have I decked my bed, with embroidered coverlids of the fine linen of Egypt.
18Come, let us indulge in love until the morning: let us delight ourselves with dalliances.
Cross References
Exodus 30:23And thou, take unto thyself principal spices: of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon, its half shall be two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
Psalms 45:9(45:10) Kings' daughters are among those dear to thee: the queen standeth on thy right hand in fine gold of Ophir.
Song of Solomon 4:13Thy sprouts are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, copher and spikenard;
Isaiah 57:7Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou placed thy couch: even thither wentest thou 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 →