Song of Solomon 1:17
15 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes.
16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
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 looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Read in contextPsalms 92:12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Read in context2 Chronicles 2:8–9
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
Read in context1 Kings 6:9
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
Read in contextSong of Solomon 7:5
Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
Read in contextEzekiel 41:16
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
Read in contextEzekiel 42:3
Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
Read in context1 Timothy 3:15–16
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
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