Song of Solomon 1:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

Song of Solomon 1:17 —

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Cross-References

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Hebrews 11:10
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Psalms 92:12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Song of Solomon 7:5
Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
Ezekiel 41:16
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;
Ezekiel 42:3
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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Commentary

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…

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

(vv. 17)

17. our house--see on So 1:16; but primarily, the kiosk (Is 11:10), “His rest.” Cedar is pleasing to the eye and smell, hard, and never eaten by worms. fir--rather, “cypress,” which is hard, durable, and fragrant, of a reddish hue [Gesenius, Weiss, and Maurer]. Contrasted with the shifting “tents” (So 1:5), His house is “our house” (Psa 92:13; Ep 2:19; He 3:6). Perfect oneness of Him and the bride…