Song of Songs 1:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 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 your servants are skillful to cut timber in Lebanon; and behold, my servants shall be with your servants, 9 To prepare me timber in abundance, for the house which I am about to build shall be exceedingly great.
  • Ps 92:12 : 12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
  • Song 7:5 : 5 Your head crowns you like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple; the king is held captive by your locks.
  • Song 8:9 : 9 If she is a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver; and if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
  • Ezek 41:16 : 16 The doorposts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries around their three stories, opposite the door, paneled with wood all around, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
  • Ezek 42:3 : 3 Opposite the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and opposite the pavement for the outer court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
  • 1 Tim 3:15-16 : 15 But if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth. 16 And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
  • 1 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, 5 You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 1:14-16
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    83%

    14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blooms in the vineyards of Engedi.

    15Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have doves' eyes.

    16Behold, you are fair, my beloved, yes, pleasant. Also, our bed is green.

  • Ps 104:16-17
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    76%

    16The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which He has planted;

    17Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

  • Ps 80:10-11
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    10The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and its boughs were like the majestic cedars.

    11It sent out its boughs unto the sea, and its branches unto the river.

  • 1 Kgs 6:15
    74%

    15And he built the walls of the house inside with cedar boards, from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling; 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 inside the house was carved with gourds and open flowers; all was cedar, there was no stone seen.

  • Ps 148:9
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    9Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all cedars;

  • Song 4:15
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    15A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

  • Ezek 31:7-9
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    73%

    7Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches, for its root was by great waters.

    8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like its branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

    9I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

  • 2 Chr 3:5
    73%

    5And the greater house he paneled 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 your servants are skillful to cut timber in Lebanon; and behold, my servants shall be with your servants,

    9To prepare me timber in abundance, for the house which I am about to build shall be exceedingly 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 were supported by cedar timbers.

  • 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, cut to size, and cedar.

  • Ezek 27:5
    72%

    5They have made all your ship boards of fir trees from Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for you.

  • Song 8:9
    72%

    9If she is a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver; and if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

  • Song 2:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3As the apple tree among the trees of the forest, 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 banquet hall, and his banner over me was love.

  • Song 5:15
    71%

    15His legs are like pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

  • Isa 14:8
    71%

    8Yes, the pine trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since you are laid down, no woodcutter comes 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
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    71%

    6How fair and how pleasant you are, O love, for delights!

    7This stature of yours is like a palm tree, and your breasts like clusters of fruit.

  • Zech 11:1
    71%

    1Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars.

  • Num 24:6
    71%

    6Like valleys they spread out, like gardens by the riverside, like trees of aloes which the LORD has planted, and like cedar trees beside the waters.

  • Ezek 17:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22Thus says 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 its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon a high and prominent mountain:

    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 birds of every wing; in the shadow of its branches shall they dwell.

  • 1 Chr 22:4
    71%

    4Also cedar trees in abundance, for the Sidonians and those 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 have fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but we will replace them with cedars.

  • Job 8:16
    70%

    16He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.

  • Ezek 19:11
    70%

    11And she had strong rods for scepters of those who bore 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 cuts down cedars, and takes the cypress and the oak, which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest: he plants an ash, and the rain nourishes it.

  • Song 2:13
    70%

    13The fig tree puts forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

  • Jer 22:14
    70%

    14Who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is paneled 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 fragrance as Lebanon.

  • Song 2:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9My beloved is like a gazelle or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice.

    10My beloved spoke and said to me, 'Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.'

  • Song 4:13
    70%

    13Your 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 beautiful branches, and with a sheltering canopy, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

  • Song 4:1
    70%

    1Behold, you are fair, my love; behold, you are fair; you have dove's eyes within your locks: your hair is like a flock of goats, appearing from Mount Gilead.

  • Song 2:17
    70%

    17Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young deer upon the mountains of Bether.

  • Song 7:12
    69%

    12Let us rise early to the vineyards, let us see if the vine has flourished, if the tender grapes appear, and the pomegranates blossom. There I will give you my love.