Proverbs 7:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

Proverbs 7:16 —

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Cross-References

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Isaiah 19:9
Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.
Ezekiel 27:7
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.
1 Kings 10:28
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
Song of Solomon 3:7-10
Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel. …
Revelation 2:22
Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

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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…

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

(vv. 16)

16-17. my bed--or, “couch,” adorned in the costliest manner.