Proverbs 7:17
I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
In Context
16I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.
18Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.
Cross References
Exodus 30:23Take thou also vnto thee, principall spices of the most pure myrrhe fiue hundreth shekels, of sweete cinamon halfe so much, that is, two hundreth and fiftie, and of sweete calamus, two hundreth, and fiftie:
Psalms 45:9Kings daugthers were among thine honorable wiues: vpon thy right hand did stand the Queene in a vesture of golde of Ophir.
Song of Solomon 4:13Thy plantes are as an orchard of pomegranates with sweete fruites, as camphire, spikenarde,
Isaiah 57:7Thou hast made thy bed vpon a very hie mountaine: thou wentest vp thither, euen thither wentest thou 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 →