Verse 17

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

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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 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.