Proverbs 7:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 19:9 : 9 And all the workers in linen thread, and those who make cotton cloth, will be put to shame.
  • Ezek 27:7 : 7 The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade.
  • Rev 2:22 : 22 See, I will put her into a bed, and those who make themselves unclean with her, into great trouble, if they go on with her works.
  • 1 Kgs 10:28 : 28 And Solomon's horses came from Egypt and from Kue; the king's traders got them at a price from Kue.
  • Prov 31:22 : 22 She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple.
  • Song 1:16 : 16 See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.
  • Song 3:7-9 : 7 See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel, 8 All of them armed with swords, trained in war; every man has his sword at his side, because of fear in the night. 9 King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon. 10 He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:17-18
    2 verses
    88%

    17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

    18 Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

  • 15 So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.

  • 41 And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

  • 13 When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;

  • 7 The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade.

  • 6 There were fair hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone: the seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.

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    10 And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about you and covering you with silk.

    11 And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.

  • Isa 57:7-8
    2 verses
    72%

    7 You have put your bed on a high mountain: there you went up to make your offering.

    8 And on the back of the doors and on the pillars you have put your sign: for you have been false to me with another; you have made your bed wide, and made an agreement with them; you had a desire for their bed where you saw it

  • 22 She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple.

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    16 And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.

    17 And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;

    18 And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.

  • 35 And he made the veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with winged ones designed by expert workmen.

  • Song 1:11-14
    4 verses
    71%

    11 We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.

    12 While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.

    13 As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

    14 My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

  • 8 Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.

  • 16 All the hangings were of the best linen.

  • Song 1:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16 See, you are fair, my loved one, and a pleasure; our bed is green.

    17 Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.

  • Song 3:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6 Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

    7 See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,

  • 20 For the bed is not long enough for a man to be stretched out on: and the cover is not wide enough for him to be covered with.

  • 31 And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman:

  • 10 He made its pillars of silver, its base of gold, its seat of purple, the middle of it of ebony.

  • 14 And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.

  • 3 Truly, I will not come into my house, or go to my bed,

  • 4 Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;

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    6 The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

  • 1 And you are to make a House for me, with ten curtains of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman.

  • 3 I have put off my coat; how may I put it on? My feet are washed; how may I make them unclean?

  • 14 Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

  • 8 Then all the expert workmen among them made the House with its ten curtains; of the best linen, blue and purple and red, they made them, with winged ones worked by expert designers.

  • 1 By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.

  • 4 He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.

  • 36 And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red.

  • 4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

  • 7 Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

  • 13 So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful.

  • 6 Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

  • 18 Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.

  • 9 To make the open space, he put hangings on the south side, of the best linen, a hundred cubits long:

  • 5 And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.

  • 14 She will come before the king in robes of needlework; the virgins in her train will come before you.

  • 26 At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • 17 Then the king made a great ivory seat, plated with the best gold.