22She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. …
The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-31)This description of the virtuous woman is designed to show what wives the women should make and what wives the men should choose; it consists of twenty-two verses, each beginning with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet in order, as some of the Psalms , which makes some think it was no part of the lesson which Lemuel’s mother taught him, but a poem by itself, written by some other hand, and perhaps ha…
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