Proverbs 7:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 45:8 : 8 All thy garments [smell] of myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
  • Song 3:6 : 6 ¶ Who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
  • Song 4:13-14 : 13 Thy plants [are] an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, 14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
  • Isa 57:7-9 : 7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. 8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered [thyself to another] than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest [it]. 9 And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase [thyself even] unto hell.
  • Exod 30:23 : 23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels], and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels],

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 7:15-16
    2 verses
    88%

    15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

    16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt.

  • Song 4:9-16
    8 verses
    81%

    9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, [my] spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

    10 How fair is thy love, my sister, [my] spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

    11 Thy lips, O [my] spouse, drop [as] the honeycomb: honey and milk [are] under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments [is] like the smell of Lebanon.

    12 A garden inclosed [is] my sister, [my] spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

    13 Thy plants [are] an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,

    14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:

    15 ¶ A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

    16 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, [that] the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

  • 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

  • Song 1:12-14
    3 verses
    81%

    12 ¶ While the king [sitteth] at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

    13 A bundle of myrrh [is] my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

    14 My beloved [is] unto me [as] a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.

  • Song 3:6-7
    2 verses
    78%

    6 ¶ Who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

    7 ¶ Behold his bed, which [is] Solomon's; threescore valiant men [are] about it, of the valiant of Israel.

  • 41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

  • Song 7:6-13
    8 verses
    76%

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

    7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes].

    8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;

    9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth [down] sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

    10 ¶ I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me.

    11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

    12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, [whether] the tender grape appear, [and] the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

    13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates [are] all manner of pleasant [fruits], new and old, [which] I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

  • 6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

  • 8 All thy garments [smell] of myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

  • 13 His cheeks [are] as a bed of spices, [as] sweet flowers: his lips [like] lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

  • Song 5:1-3
    3 verses
    74%

    1 ¶ I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

    2 ¶ I sleep, but my heart waketh: [it is] the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, [and] my locks with the drops of the night.

    3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

  • 13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

  • 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped [with] myrrh, and my fingers [with] sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

  • Song 1:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 Behold, thou [art] fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed [is] green.

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

  • 2 My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

  • Song 1:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 ¶ Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love [is] better than wine.

    3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name [is as] ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

  • 23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred [shekels], and of sweet cinnamon half so much, [even] two hundred and fifty [shekels], and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty [shekels],

  • 8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered [thyself to another] than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest [it].

  • Song 2:4-6
    3 verses
    71%

    4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me [was] love.

    5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I [am] sick of love.

    6 His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

  • 18 And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.

  • Song 8:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 I would lead thee, [and] bring thee into my mother's house, [who] would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

    3 His left hand [should be] under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

  • 14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

  • 1 ¶ By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

  • 6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

  • 10 He made the pillars thereof [of] silver, the bottom thereof [of] gold, the covering of it [of] purple, the midst thereof being paved [with] love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.