Song of Solomon 1:17
15 How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.
16 How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.
The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
- KJV
- The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
- WEB
- The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs.
- ASV
- The beams of our house are cedars, [And] our rafters are firs.
- DARBY
- The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are cypresses.
- BLB
- The beams of our house [are] cedars, our rafters [are] firs.
- ÅB
- Sedrer er bjelkene i vårt hus, cypresser er vårt tavlede loft.
- OTB
- Bjelkene i vår bolig er sedertrær, Våre takbjelker er laget av sypresser.
- B1930
- Sedrer er bjelkene i vårt hus, cypresser er vårt tavlede loft.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 11:10
For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
Read in contextPsalms 92:12
The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Read in context2 Chronicles 2:8–9
Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum logs from Lebanon, for I know that your servants have skill to cut timber there. And indeed, my servants will work with yours
Read in context1 Kings 6:9
So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 7:5
Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.
Read in contextEzekiel 41:16
as well as the thresholds and the beveled windows and the galleries all around with their three levels opposite the threshold, were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows, and the windows were covered.
Read in contextEzekiel 42:3
Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.
Read in context1 Timothy 3:15–16
in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
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