16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
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Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel. …
Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-23)Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing would be so entertaining to the audience, nor give them so much di…
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