Song of Songs 1:17

American Standard Version (1901)

The beams of our house are cedars, [And] our rafters are firs.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 6:9 : 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.
  • 2 Chr 2:8-9 : 8 Send me also cedar-trees, fir-trees, and algum-trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, 9 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
  • Ps 92:12 : 12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
  • Song 7:5 : 5 Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the hair of thy head like purple; The king is held captive in the tresses [thereof] .
  • Song 8:9 : 9 If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver: And if she be a door, We will inclose her with boards of cedar.
  • Ezek 41:16 : 16 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the threshold, ceiled with wood round about, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),
  • Ezek 42:3 : 3 Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.
  • 1 Tim 3:15-16 : 15 but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
  • 1 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 unto whom coming, a living stone, rejected indeed of men, but with God elect, precious, 5 ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 1:14-16
    3 verses
    83%

    14My beloved is unto me [as] a cluster of henna-flowers In the vineyards of En-gedi.

    15Behold, thou art fair, my love; Behold thou art fair; Thine eyes are [as] doves.

    16Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: Also our couch is green.

  • Ps 104:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16The trees of Jehovah are filled [with moisture], The cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;

    17Where the birds make their nests: As for the stork, the fir-trees are her house.

  • Ps 80:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God.

    11It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River.

  • 1 Kgs 6:15
    74%

    15And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house unto the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

  • 1 Kgs 6:18
    74%

    18And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

  • Ps 148:9
    73%

    9Mountains and all hills; Fruitful trees and all cedars;

  • Song 4:15
    73%

    15[ Thou art] a fountain of gardens, A well of living waters, And flowing streams from Lebanon.

  • Ezek 31:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

    8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.

    9I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

  • 2 Chr 3:5
    73%

    5And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.

  • 2 Chr 2:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8Send me also cedar-trees, fir-trees, and algum-trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

    9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

    10And he built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

  • 1 Kgs 7:3
    72%

    3And it was covered with cedar above over the forty and five beams, that were upon the pillars; fifteen in a row.

  • 1 Kgs 7:11
    72%

    11And above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood.

  • Ezek 27:5
    72%

    5They have made all thy planks of fir-trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for thee.

  • Song 8:9
    72%

    9If she be a wall, We will build upon her a turret of silver: And if she be a door, We will inclose her with boards of cedar.

  • Song 2:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste.

    4He brought me to the banqueting-house, And his banner over me was love.

  • Song 5:15
    71%

    15His legs are [as] pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

  • Isa 14:8
    71%

    8Yea, the fir-trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art laid low, no hewer is come up against us.

  • Isa 2:13
    71%

    13and upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,

  • Song 7:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

    7This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to its clusters.

  • Zech 11:1
    71%

    1Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.

  • Num 24:6
    71%

    6As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river-side, As lign-aloes which Jehovah hath planted, As cedar-trees beside the waters.

  • Ezek 17:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain:

    23in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade of the branches thereof shall they dwell.

  • 1 Chr 22:4
    71%

    4and cedar-trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar-trees in abundance to David.

  • Prov 7:17
    71%

    17I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

  • Isa 9:10
    71%

    10The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone; the sycomores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

  • Job 8:16
    70%

    16He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.

  • Ezek 19:11
    70%

    11And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in [ their height with the multitude of their branches.

  • Isa 44:14
    70%

    14He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the holm-tree and the oak, and strengtheneth for himself one among the trees of the forest: he planteth a fir-tree, and the rain doth nourish it.

  • Song 2:13
    70%

    13The fig-tree ripeneth her green figs, And the vines are in blossom; They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

  • Jer 22:14
    70%

    14that saith, I will build me a wide house and spacious chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • Hos 14:6
    70%

    6His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

  • Song 2:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: Behold, he standeth behind our wall; He looketh in at the windows; He glanceth through the lattice.

    10My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

  • Song 4:13
    70%

    13Thy shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits; Henna with spikenard plants,

  • Ezek 31:3
    70%

    3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

  • Song 4:1
    70%

    1Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; Thine eyes are [as] doves behind thy veil. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, That lie along the side of mount Gilead.

  • Song 2:17
    70%

    17Until the day be cool, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart Upon the mountains of Bether.

  • Song 7:12
    69%

    12Let us get up early to the vineyards; Let us see whether the vine hath budded, [And] its blossom is open, [And] the pomegranates are in flower: There will I give thee my love.