Proverbs 7:16
I have made (ready) my bed with cords, I have arrayed it with tapets painted of Egypt; (I have prepared my bed, yea, I have arrayed it with coloured tapestries from Egypt;)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
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 went out into thy meeting, and I desired to see thee; and I have found thee.
17I have besprinkled my bed with myrrh, and aloes, and canel (or and cinnamon).
Cross References
Proverbs 31:22She made to her a ray-cloth; bis, either white silk, and purple is the cloth of her. (She made a ray-cloth for herself; bis, or white silk, and purple maketh her cloak.)
Song of Solomon 3:7Lo! sixty strong men of the strongest men of Israel compass the bed of Solomon; (Behold! sixty strong men of the strongest of Israel surround, (or protect), Solomon in his bed;)
Ezekiel 27:7Diverse bis, either white silk, of Egypt, was woven to thee into a veil, that it should be set in the mast, (or Diverse bis, or white silk, from Egypt, was woven for thee into a sail, so that it could be set on the mast); jacinth and purple of the isles of Elishah were made thy covering.
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 →