17The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
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For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
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;
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.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)Here the conference is carried on between Christ and his spouse, and endearments are mutually exchanged. I. Believers take a great complacency in Christ, and in communion with him. To you that believe he is precious, above any thing in this world, 1 Pet. 2:7. Observe, 1. The humble reverence believers have for Christ as their Sovereign, Song 1:12. He is a King in respect both of dignity and domini…
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