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Selected Verse: Song of solomon 1:17 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| So 1:17 |
King James |
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
our house--see on Sol 1:16; but primarily, the kiosk (Isa 11:10), "His rest." Cedar is pleasing to the eye and smell, hard, and never eaten by worms.
fir--rather, "cypress," which is hard, durable, and fragrant, of a reddish hue [GESENIUS, WEISS, and MAURER]. Contrasted with the shifting "tents" (Sol 1:5), His house is "our house" (Psa 92:13; Eph 2:19; Heb 3:6). Perfect oneness of Him and the bride (Joh 14:20; Joh 17:21). There is the shelter of a princely roof from the sun (Psa 121:6), without the confinement of walls, and amidst rural beauties. The carved ceiling represents the wondrous excellencies of His divine nature. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Cedar - Not only strong, but also fragrant and delightful. Cypress - Which also was strong and fragrant, and therefore suits well with cedar. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
The beams of our house are cedar - Perhaps it was under a cedar tree whose vast limbs were interwoven with the ברות beroth, a tree of the cypress kind, where they now sat. And this natural bower recommended itself to the poet's attention by its strength, loftiness, and its affording them a shady cover and cool retreat. How natural to break out into the praise of a bower, by whose branches and foliage we are shielded from the intense heat of the sun! Even the shelter of a great rock to a weary land is celebrated by the pen of the first of prophets and greatest of poets, Isa 32:2.
With this chapter the first day of the marriage ceremonies is supposed to end. |
6 The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
19 Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
16 Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.
2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.