Song of Songs 1:17

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 6:9 : 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards 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 can skill 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 wonderful great.
Ps 92:12 : 12 The righteous shall flourish{H8799)} like the palm tree: he shall grow{H8799)} like a cedar in Lebanon.
Song 7:5 : 5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
Song 8:9 : 9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
Ezek 41:16 : 16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
Ezek 42:3 : 3 Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
1 Tim 3:15-16 : 15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself 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: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
Heb 11:10 : 10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
1 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Song 1:14-16
3 verses
83%
14My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi.
15Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
16Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
Ps 104:16-17
2 verses
76%
16The trees of the LORD are full of sap; 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 hills were covered{H8795)} with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
11She sent out{H8762)} her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
1 Kgs 6:15
74%
15And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
1 Kgs 6:18
74%
18And the cedar of the house within was 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%
15A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
Ezek 31:7-9
3 verses
73%
7Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
9I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
2 Chr 3:5
73%
5And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set 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 can skill 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 wonderful great.
1 Kgs 6:9-10
2 verses
72%
9So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
10And then he built chambers against all the house, 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 upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
1 Kgs 7:11
72%
11And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
Ezek 27:5
72%
5They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
Song 8:9
72%
9If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace 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 countenance is as 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 down, no feller 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 clusters of grapes.
Zech 11:1
71%
1Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy cedars.
Num 24:6
71%
6As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.
Ezek 17:22-23
2 verses
71%
22Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent:
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 fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
1 Chr 22:4
71%
4Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David.
Prov 7:17
71%
17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Isa 9:10
71%
10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
Job 8:16
70%
16He is green before the sun, and his branch shooteth forth in his garden.
Ezek 19:11
70%
11And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
Isa 44:14
70%
14He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
Song 2:13
70%
13The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Jer 22:14
70%
14That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled 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 forth at the windows, shewing himself 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 plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
Ezek 31:3
70%
3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
Song 4:1
70%
1Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Song 2:17
70%
17Until the day break, 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 if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.