Proverbs 31:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.

Proverbs 31:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 19:8
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.
Genesis 41:42
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;
Proverbs 7:16
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
Ezekiel 16:10-13
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. …
Psalms 45:13-14
The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. …

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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 had…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

10-31. This exquisite picture of a truly lovely wife is conceived and drawn in accordance with the customs of Eastern nations, but its moral teachings suit all climes. In Hebrew the verses begin with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in order (compare Introduction to Poetical Books). Who ... woman--The question implies that such are rare, though not entirely wanting (compare Pr 18:22; 19:14). vir…