Proverbs 7:17
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
In Context
16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Cross References
Exodus 30:23Take you also unto you principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
Psalms 45:9Kings' daughters were among your honourable women: upon your right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
Song of Solomon 4:13Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
Isaiah 57:7Upon a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed: even thither went you 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 →