Song of Songs 1:17

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The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are cypress trees.

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  • 1 Kgs 6:9 : 9 So he built the house and finished it, and he covered the house with beams and rows of cedar boards.
  • 2 Chr 2:8-9 : 8 Provide a large amount of timber for me, because the house I am building will be great and extraordinary. 9 I will give your servants, the woodcutters who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand gallons of wine, and twenty thousand gallons of oil.
  • Ps 92:12 : 12 My eyes will see the fall of my enemies; my ears will hear the downfall of my wicked foes who rise against me.
  • Song 7:5 : 5 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, looking toward Damascus.
  • Song 8:9 : 9 If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver. But if she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.
  • Ezek 41:16 : 16 The thresholds, the closed windows, and the galleries around the three sides opposite the threshold were paneled with wood all around, completely surrounding from the ground up to the windows, which were covered.
  • Ezek 42:3 : 3 It faced the twenty cubits belonging to the inner court and the pavement belonging to the outer court, with a gallery facing a gallery, set in three tiers.
  • 1 Tim 3:15-16 : 15 But if I delay, you will know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. 16 And undeniably, great is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, justified by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, and taken up in glory.
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 For he was waiting for the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
  • 1 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 As you come to Him, the living Stone—rejected by people but chosen and precious to God— 5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 1:14-16
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    14 My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.

    15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love! Behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are like doves.

    16 Behold, you are handsome, my beloved, truly delightful. Our bed is lush and green.

  • Ps 104:16-17
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    16 The trees of the LORD are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon that He planted.

    17 There the birds make their nests; the stork has its home in the fir trees.

  • Ps 80:10-11
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    10 You cleared the ground for it; it took root and filled the land.

    11 The mountains were covered with its shade, the mighty cedars with its branches.

  • 1 Kgs 6:15
    74%

    15 He built the walls of the house on the inside with cedar boards, from the floor of the house to the ceiling, overlaying the interior with wood, and he covered the floor of the house with cypress planks.

  • 1 Kgs 6:18
    74%

    18 The cedar within the house was carved with gourds and open flowers. All was cedar; no stone could be seen.

  • Ps 148:9
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    9 you mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars,

  • Song 4:15
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    15 You are a spring of gardens, a well of fresh water, flowing streams from Lebanon.

  • Ezek 31:7-9
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    73%

    7 It was majestic in its size, with long branches, because its roots reached abundant waters.

    8 The cedars in God's garden could not rival it; the cypresses could not compare to its branches, and the plane trees were not like its boughs. No tree in the garden of God was equal to it in beauty.

    9 I made it beautiful with its many branches, and all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God, envied it.

  • 2 Chr 3:5
    73%

    5 He paneled the main hall with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and he decorated it with palm trees and chains.

  • 2 Chr 2:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8 Provide a large amount of timber for me, because the house I am building will be great and extraordinary.

    9 I will give your servants, the woodcutters who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors of crushed wheat, twenty thousand cors of barley, twenty thousand gallons of wine, and twenty thousand gallons of oil.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
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    72%

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

    10 He also built the annex against the entire house, five cubits high, and it was attached to the house with cedar beams.

  • 1 Kgs 7:3
    72%

    3 It was paneled with cedar above the chambers that rested on the forty-five pillars, with fifteen pillars in each row.

  • 1 Kgs 7:11
    72%

    11 Above were precious stones cut to measure, along with cedar wood.

  • Ezek 27:5
    72%

    5 They made all your planks from cypress trees from Senir; they took cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

  • Song 8:9
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    9 If she is a wall, we will build on her a battlement of silver. But if she is a door, we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

  • Song 2:3-4
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    72%

    3 Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

    4 He brought me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love.

  • Song 5:15
    71%

    15 His legs are pillars of marble, set on bases of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

  • Isa 14:8
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    8 Even the cypresses rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.'

  • Isa 2:13
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    13 It will come against all the cedars of Lebanon, tall and lofty, and against all the oaks of Bashan.

  • Song 7:6-7
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    6 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, and the flowing locks of your hair are like royal purple. The king is captivated by its tresses.

    7 How beautiful and pleasant you are, O love, with your delights!

  • Zech 11:1
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    1 Open your gates, O Lebanon, so that fire may consume your cedars.

  • Num 24:6
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    6 Like valleys they stretch out, like gardens along a river, like aloes planted by the LORD, like cedars beside the waters.

  • Ezek 17:22-23
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    22 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I Myself will take a branch from the top of a lofty cedar and plant it. I will break off a tender sprig from its topmost shoots, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.

    23 I will plant it on the high mountain of Israel. It will bear branches and produce fruit and become a noble cedar. Every bird of every kind will nest under it, taking shelter in the shade of its branches.

  • 1 Chr 22:4
    71%

    4 He also supplied cedar logs without number, for the Sidonians and Tyrians brought great quantities of cedar logs to David.

  • Prov 7:17
    71%

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

  • Isa 9:10
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    10 But the LORD has strengthened Rezin’s adversaries against them and has stirred up their enemies.

  • Job 8:16
    70%

    16 They are green before the sun, and their shoots spread out over the garden.

  • Ezek 19:11
    70%

    11 Its branches were strong, fit for rulers' scepters. It towered high; its height was noticeable among the branches, in the lushness of its abundance.

  • Isa 44:14
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    14 He cuts down cedars or chooses a cypress or an oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a pine, and the rain makes it grow.

  • Song 2:13
    70%

    13 The fig tree ripens its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

  • Jer 22:14
    70%

    14 He says, 'I will build for myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' cutting out large windows for it, paneling it with cedar, and painting it with vermilion.

  • Hos 14:6
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    6 I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.

  • Song 2:9-10
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    70%

    9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.

    10 My beloved spoke and said to me, 'Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.'

  • Song 4:13
    70%

    13 Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, henna with nard plants.

  • Ezek 31:3
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    3 Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches, dense shade, and towering height, its top reaching among the thick clouds.

  • Song 4:1
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    1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.

  • Song 2:17
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    17 Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the rugged mountains.

  • Song 7:12
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    12 Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields; let us lodge in the villages.