Proverbs 7:17
I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, 1 And my house with cinnamon. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
In Context
16I have spread my bed with sheets, 1 And I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt. 1
18Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; 1 Come, and let us embrace in love. 1
Cross References
Exodus 30:23Do thou also take sweet herbs, the flower of choice myrrh five hundred shekels, and the half of this two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cinnamon, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling calamus,
Psalms 45:9Come, and behold the works of the Lord, 1 What wonders he has achieved on the earth. 1
Song of Solomon 4:13Thy shoots are a garden of pomegranates, with the fruit of choice berries; 1 Camphor, with spikenard: 1
Isaiah 57:7On a lofty and high mountain, there is thy bed, and thither thou carriedst up thy meat offerings:
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 →