Song of Songs 1:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

The beames of our house are cedars, our rafters are of firre.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 6:9 : 9 So he built the house and finished it, and sieled the house being vawted with sieling of cedar trees.
  • 2 Chr 2:8-9 : 8 Sende mee also cedar trees, firre trees and Algummim trees from Lebanon: for I knowe that thy seruants can skill to hewe timber in Lebanon: and beholde, my seruantes shalbe with thine, 9 That they may prepare me timber in abudance: for the house which I doe buylde, is great and wonderfull.
  • Ps 92:12 : 12 The righteous shall flourish like a palme tree, and shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon.
  • Song 7:5 : 5 Thine head vpon thee is as skarlet, and the bush of thine head like purple: the King is tyed in the rafters.
  • Song 8:9 : 9 If shee be a wall, we will builde vpon her a siluer palace: and if she be a doore, we wil keepe her in with bordes of cedar.
  • Ezek 41:16 : 16 The postes and the narowe windowes, and the chambers round about, on three sides ouer against the postes, sieled with cedar wood rounde about, and from the ground vp to the windowes, and the windowes were sieled.
  • Ezek 42:3 : 3 Ouer against the twentie cubites which were for the inner court, and ouer against the pauement, which was for the vtter court, was chamber against chamber in three rowes.
  • 1 Tim 3:15-16 : 15 But if I tary long, that thou maist yet know, how thou oughtest to behaue thy self in ye house of God, which is the Church of the liuing God, the pillar and ground of trueth. 16 And without controuersie, great is the mysterie of godlinesse, which is, God is manifested in the flesh, iustified in the Spirit, seene of Angels, preached vnto the Gentiles, beleeued on in the world, and receiued vp in glorie.
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 For he looked for a citie hauing a foundation, whose builder and maker is God.
  • 1 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 To whome coming as vnto a liuing stone disalowed of men, but chosen of God and precious, 5 Yee also as liuely stones, bee made a spirituall house, an holy Priesthoode to offer vp spirituall sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 1:14-16
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    83%

    14My welbeloued is as a cluster of camphire vnto me in the vines of Engedi.

    15My loue, beholde, thou art faire: beholde, thou art faire: thine eyes are like the doues.

    16My welbeloued, beholde, thou art faire and pleasant: also our bed is greene:

  • Ps 104:16-17
    2 verses
    76%

    16The high trees are satisfied, euen the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted,

    17That ye birdes may make their nestes there: the storke dwelleth in the firre trees.

  • Ps 80:10-11
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    76%

    10The mountaines were couered with the shadowe of it, and the boughes thereof were like the goodly cedars.

    11Shee stretched out her branches vnto the Sea, and her boughes vnto the Riuer.

  • 1 Kgs 6:15
    74%

    15And built the walles of the house within, with boards of cedar tree from the pauement of the house vnto the walles of the sieling, and within he couered them with wood, and couered the floore of the house with planks of firre.

  • 1 Kgs 6:18
    74%

    18And the cedar of the house within was carued with knops, and grauen with floures: all was cedar, so that no stone was seene.

  • Ps 148:9
    73%

    9Mountaines and all hils, fruitfull trees and all ceders:

  • Song 4:15
    73%

    15O fountaine of the gardens, O well of liuing waters, and the springs of Lebanon.

  • Ezek 31:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7Thus was he faire in his greatnesse, and in the length of his branches: for his roote was neere great waters.

    8The cedars in the garden of God coulde not hide him: no firre tree was like his branches, and the chessenut trees were not like his boughes: all the trees in the garden of God were not like vnto him in his beautie.

    9I made him faire by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, enuied him.

  • 2 Chr 3:5
    73%

    5And the greater house he sieled with firre tree which he ouerlayd with good golde, & graued thereon palme trees and chaines.

  • 2 Chr 2:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8Sende mee also cedar trees, firre trees and Algummim trees from Lebanon: for I knowe that thy seruants can skill to hewe timber in Lebanon: and beholde, my seruantes shalbe with thine,

    9That they may prepare me timber in abudance: for the house which I doe buylde, is great and wonderfull.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9So he built the house and finished it, and sieled the house being vawted with sieling of cedar trees.

    10And he built the galleries vpon al the wall of the house of fiue cubites height, and they were ioyned to the house with beames of cedar.

  • 1 Kgs 7:3
    72%

    3And it was couered aboue with cedar vpon the beames, that lay on the fourtie and fiue pillars, fifteene in a rowe.

  • 1 Kgs 7:11
    72%

    11Aboue also were costly stones, squared by rule, and boardes of cedar.

  • Ezek 27:5
    72%

    5They haue made all thy shippe boardes of firre trees of Shenir: they haue brought cedars from Lebanon, to make mastes for thee.

  • Song 8:9
    72%

    9If shee be a wall, we will builde vpon her a siluer palace: and if she be a doore, we wil keepe her in with bordes of cedar.

  • Song 2:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3Like the apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my welbeloued among the sonnes of men: vnder his shadow had I delite, & sate downe: and his fruite was sweete vnto my mouth.

    4Hee brought mee into the wine cellar, and loue was his banner ouer me.

  • Song 5:15
    71%

    15His legges are as pillars of marble, set vpon sockets of fine golde: his countenance as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

  • Isa 14:8
    71%

    8Also the firre trees reioyced of thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid downe, no hewer came vp against vs.

  • Isa 2:13
    71%

    13Euen vpon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are hie & exalted, & vpon all the okes of Bashan,

  • Song 7:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6Howe faire art thou, and howe pleasant art thou, O my loue, in pleasures!

    7This thy stature is like a palme tree, and thy brestes like clusters.

  • Zech 11:1
    71%

    1Open thy doores, O Lebanon, and the fire shall deuoure thy cedars.

  • Num 24:6
    71%

    6As the valleis, are they stretched forth, as gardes by the riuers side, as the aloe trees, which the Lorde hath planted, as the cedars beside the waters.

  • Ezek 17:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22Thus saith the Lorde God, I wil also take off the top of this hie cedar, and wil set it, and cut off the top of the tender plant thereof, and I wil plant it vpon an hie mountaine and great.

    23Euen in the hie mountaine of Israel will I plant it: and it shal bring forth boughes & beare fruite, and be an excellent cedar, and vnder it shal remaine all birds, and euery foule shall dwell in the shadow of the branches thereof.

  • 1 Chr 22:4
    71%

    4And cedar trees without nomber: for the Zidonians and they of Tyrus brought much cedar wood to Dauid.

  • Prov 7:17
    71%

    17I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.

  • Isa 9:10
    71%

    10The brickes are fallen, but we will build it with hewen stones: the wilde figge trees are cut downe, but we will change them into ceders.

  • Job 8:16
    70%

    16The tree is greene before the sunne, and the branches spread ouer the garden thereof.

  • Ezek 19:11
    70%

    11And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

  • Isa 44:14
    70%

    14He will hewe him downe cedars, and take the pine tree and the oke, and taketh courage among the trees of the forest: he planteth a firre tree, and the raine doeth nourish it.

  • Song 2:13
    70%

    13The figtree hath brought foorth her yong figges: and the vines with their small grapes haue cast a sauour: arise my loue, my faire one, and come away.

  • Jer 22:14
    70%

    14He saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers: so he will make him selfe large windowes, and feeling with cedar, and paint them with vermilion.

  • Hos 14:6
    70%

    6(14:7) His branches shall spread, and his beautie shalbe as the oliue tree, and his smel as Lebanon.

  • Song 2:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9My welbeloued is like a roe, or a yong hart: loe, he standeth behinde our wall, looking forth of the windowes, shewing him selfe through the grates.

    10My welbeloued spake and said vnto me, Arise, my loue, my faire one, and come thy way.

  • Song 4:13
    70%

    13Thy plantes are as an orchard of pomegranates with sweete fruites, as camphire, spikenarde,

  • Ezek 31:3
    70%

    3Beholde, Asshur was like a cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, & with thicke shadowing boughes, and shot vp very hye, and his toppe was among the thicke boughes.

  • Song 4:1
    70%

    1Beholde, thou art faire, my loue: behold, thou art faire: thine eyes are like the doues: among thy lockes thine heare is like the flocke of goates, which looke downe from the mountaine of Gilead.

  • Song 2:17
    70%

    17Vntil the day breake, and the shadowes flee away: returne, my welbeloued, and be like a roe, or a yong hart vpon the mountaines of Bether.

  • Song 7:12
    69%

    12Let vs get vp early to the vines, let vs see if the vine florish, whether it hath budded the small grape, or whether the pomegranates florish: there will I giue thee my loue.