Proverbs 7:16
I have spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
In Context
15therefore I came forth to meet you, desiring your face; and I have found you.
17I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.
Cross References
Proverbs 31:22She makes for her husband + 31:22 Comp. Heb. and A.V. clothes of double texture, and garments for herself of fine linen and scarlet.
Song of Solomon 3:7Behold Solomon's bed; sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it.
Ezekiel 27:7Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied the couch, to put honour upon you, and to clothe you with blue and purple from the isles of Elisai; and they became your coverings.
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 →