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Proverbs 7:17
17I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Proverbs 7:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
- New International Version (NIV)I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Context of Proverbs 7:17
15So I came out to meet you [that you might share with me the feast of my offering], Diligently I sought your face and I have found you. 16I have spread my couch with coverings and cushions of tapestry, With colored fine linen of Egypt. I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us console and delight ourselves with love. 19For my husband is not at home. He has gone on a long journey;
Read all of Proverbs 7Proverbs 7:17 word by word
נַ֥פְתִּי מִשְׁכָּבִ֑י מֹ֥ר אֲ֝הָלִ֗ים וְקִנָּמֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 7:17
- Isaiah 57:7Upon a high and lofty mountain You have [openly and shamelessly] made your [idolatrous and adulterous] bed; Even there you went up to offer sacrifice [to idols, in spiritual unfaithfulness to Me].
- Psalms 45:8All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh, aloes and cassia; From ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.
Commentaries on Proverbs 7:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17I have perfumed any bed with Myrrh - מר mor, "aloes," אהלים ahalim, and "cinnamon," קנמון kinnamon . We have taken our names from the original words; but probably the ahalim may not mean aloes, which is no perfume; but sandal wood, which is very much used in the East. She had used every means to excite the passions she wished to bring into action.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17The love of perfumes is here, as in Isaiah 3:24, a sign of luxurious vice. Cinnamon - The Hebrew word is identical with the English. The spice imported by the Phoenician traders from the further East, probably from Ceylon, has kept its name through all changes of language.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-27Verses 6-27 Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after Solomon has set before his eyes in so lively and plain a manner, the danger of even going near them? Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of a lofty rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the same place. The misery of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16-17She focuses on her bed and exotic perfumes like myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon, which have clear sexual implications (see Song of Solomon 4:13û14).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1716-17. my bed--or, "couch," adorned in the costliest manner.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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