Song of Songs 1:17

World English Bible (2000)

The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. Beloved

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Kgs 6:9 : 9 So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks 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 know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and behold, my servants shall be with your servants, 9 even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
  • Ps 92:12 : 12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
  • Song 7:5 : 5 Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
  • Song 8:9 : 9 If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. Beloved
  • Ezek 41:16 : 16 the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, over against the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and [from] the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),
  • Ezek 42:3 : 3 Over against the twenty [cubits] which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the third story.
  • 1 Tim 3:15-16 : 15 but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. 16 Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
  • Heb 11:10 : 10 For he looked for the city which has the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
  • 1 Pet 2:4-5 : 4 coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be 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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    14My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi. Lover

    15Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves. Beloved

    16Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, yes, pleasant; and our couch is verdant. Lover

  • Ps 104:16-17
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    76%

    16Yahweh's trees are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon, which he has planted;

    17where the birds make their nests. The stork makes its home in the fir trees.

  • Ps 80:10-11
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    10The mountains were covered with its shadow. Its boughs were like God's cedars.

    11It sent out its branches to the sea, Its shoots to the River.

  • 1 Kgs 6:15
    74%

    15He built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar: from the floor of the house to the walls of the ceiling, he covered them on the inside with wood; and he covered the floor of the house with boards of fir.

  • 1 Kgs 6:18
    74%

    18There was cedar on the house within, carved with buds and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

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

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

  • Ezek 31:7-9
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    73%

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

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

    5The greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

  • 2 Chr 2:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8"Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon: and behold, my servants shall be with your servants,

    9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.

  • 1 Kgs 6:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

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

    10He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.

  • 1 Kgs 7:3
    72%

    3It was covered with cedar above over the forty-five beams, that were on the pillars; fifteen in a row.

  • 1 Kgs 7:11
    72%

    11Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.

  • Ezek 27:5
    72%

    5They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir; they have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

  • Song 8:9
    72%

    9If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. if she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar. Beloved

  • 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, his fruit was sweet to my taste.

    4He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.

  • Song 5:15
    71%

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

  • Isa 14:8
    71%

    8Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us."

  • Isa 2:13
    71%

    13For all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, for all the oaks of Bashan,

  • Song 7:6-7
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    71%

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

    7This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.

  • Zech 11:1
    71%

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

  • Num 24:6
    71%

    6As valleys they are spread forth, as gardens by the riverside, as aloes which Yahweh has planted, as cedar trees beside the waters.

  • Ezek 17:22-23
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    71%

    22Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty 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 shade of its branches shall they dwell.

  • 1 Chr 22:4
    71%

    4and cedar trees without number: for the Sidonians and they of Tyre brought cedar trees in abundance to David.

  • Prov 7:17
    71%

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

  • Isa 9:10
    71%

    10"The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place."

  • Job 8:16
    70%

    16He is green before the sun. His shoots go forth over his garden.

  • Ezek 19:11
    70%

    11It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.

  • Isa 44:14
    70%

    14He cuts down cedars for himself, and takes the cypress and the oak, and strengthens for himself one among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir tree, and the rain nourishes it.

  • Song 2:13
    70%

    13The fig tree ripens her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away." Lover

  • Jer 22:14
    70%

    14who says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

  • Hos 14:6
    70%

    6His branches will spread, and his beauty will be like the olive tree, and his fragrance like Lebanon.

  • Song 2:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9My beloved is like a roe or a young hart. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.

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

  • Song 4:13
    70%

    13Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,

  • Ezek 31:3
    70%

    3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

  • Song 4:1
    70%

    1Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.

  • Song 2:17
    70%

    17Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bether.

  • Song 7:12
    69%

    12Let's go early up to the vineyards. Let's see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.