Proverbs 7:17
I sprinkled my bed — myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
In Context
16[With] ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works — cotton of Egypt.
18Come, we are filled [with] loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.
Cross References
Exodus 30:23'And thou, take to thyself principal spices, wild honey five hundred [shekels]; and spice-cinnamon, the half of that, two hundred and fifty; and spice-cane two hundred and fifty;
Psalms 45:9Daughters of kings [are] among thy precious ones, A queen hath stood at thy right hand, In pure gold of Ophir.
Song of Solomon 4:13Thy shoots a paradise of pomegranates, With precious fruits,
Isaiah 57:7On a mountain, high and exalted, Thou hast set thy couch, Also thither thou hast gone up to make a 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 →