Song of Solomon 1:17 KJV — MannaFest

Song of Solomon 1:17

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

KJV

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ASV

The beams of our house are cedars, And our rafters are firs.

WEB

The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.

YLT

The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are firs, I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys!

DBT

The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are cypresses.

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Song of Solomon — Love poetry in eight chapters — the Bible's most surprising book. A chiastic structure; a bride and bridegroom alternating in dialogue; and a three-school interpretive tradition the site surfaces without adjudication.

Author: Traditional: Solomon (1:1 ''the song of songs, which is Solomon's''). Critical: the ''of Solomon'' construction allows ''about Solomon'' or ''to Solomon'' and opens the authorship question. §7.9 surfaces; most readings keep Solomonic association.
Date: Solomonic reading: c. 965–930 BC. Critical reading: later editorial compilation.

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Hebrews 11:10
For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Psalms 92:12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
1 Kings 6:9
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
1 Peter 2:4–5
To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
Ezekiel 41:16
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;

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The subject is pleasing, and therefore fit to be treated of in a song, in singing which we may make melody with our hearts unto the Lord. It is evangelical; and gospel-times should be times of joy, for gospel-grace puts a new song into our mouths, Ps. xcviii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The galleries for walking are of fir, or cypress, some sort of wood that was pleasing both to the sight and to the smell, intimating the delight which the saints take in walking with Christ and conversing with him. Every thing in the covenant of grace (on which foot all their treaties are carried on) is very firm, very fine, and very fragrant.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

our house--see on So 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" (So 1:5), His house is "our house" (Ps 92:13;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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