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Selected Verse: Proverbs 7:17 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 7:17 |
King James |
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| bed--a place for sleeping. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The love of perfumes is here, as in Isa 3:24, a sign of luxurious vice.
Cinnamon - The Hebrew word is identical with the English. The spice imported by the Phoenician traders from the further East, probably from Ceylon, has kept its name through all changes of language. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| I have perfumed any bed with Myrrh - מר mor, "aloes," אהלים ahalim, and "cinnamon," קנמון kinnamon. We have taken our names from the original words; but probably the ahalim may not mean aloes, which is no perfume; but sandal wood, which is very much used in the East. She had used every means to excite the passions she wished to bring into action. |
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.