the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Song of Solomon 1:17
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The beams of our houses are cedars,Our rafters, cypresses.
"The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters, cypresses.
the seelinges of our house are of Cedar tree, and our crosse ioyntes of Cipresse.
The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters are cypresses.
The beams of our houses are cedar, And our rafters of fir.
The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are of firs.
The beams of our house are cedar. The rafters are fir.
The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. Beloved
The beames of our house are Cedar, and our rafters of firre.
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
ye sylinges of oure house are of Cedre tre, & oure balkes of Cypresse.
"The beams of our houses are cedars, Our rafters and panels are cypresses.
The beams of our house are cedars, And our rafters are firs.
Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.
The beams of our house [are] cedar, [and] our rafters of fir.
the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber; the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.
in the shade of cedar and cypress trees.
cedars are the beams of our houses, cypresses the rafters.
The beames of our house are cedars, our rafters are of firre.
The beams of our house are of cedar, and our rafters of cypress.
The beams of our house are cedars. Our rafters are firs. Beloved
The beams of our houses are cedars, and our panels are cypresses.
fragrant cedar branches are the beams of our house, and pleasant smelling firs are the rafters.
The pillars of our house are cedars. The pieces on our roof are pine.
The beams of our house are cedars, our ceilings are of cypress.
The beams of our house are cedars, [and] our rafters are firs.
The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
the beams of our house are cedar, our rafters are pine.
The beams of our house, are cedars, Our fretted ceiling, is cypress-trees.
(1-16) The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.
the beams of our house are cedar; our rafter is cypress.
the beams of our house are cedar; our rafters are pine.
"The beams of our house are cedars, Our rafters, junipers.
Cedar trees form our roof; our ceiling is made of juniper wood.
the cedars will be the beams of our house, and the cypress trees the ceiling.
the beams of our house are cedars, and our rafters are cypresses.
The trees of oure housis ben of cedre; oure couplis ben of cipresse.
the beams of our house are cedar, our rafters are pine.
The beams of our houses [are] cedars, Our rafters [are] firs, I [am] a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
beams: Song of Solomon 8:9, 2 Chronicles 2:8, 2 Chronicles 2:9, Psalms 92:12, 1 Timothy 3:15, 1 Timothy 3:16, Hebrews 11:10, 1 Peter 2:4, 1 Peter 2:5
rafters: or, galleries, Song of Solomon 7:5, Ezekiel 41:16, Ezekiel 42:3
Reciprocal: Jeremiah 22:14 - ceiled with cedar Ezekiel 41:15 - galleries
Cross-References
I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Have you commanded the morning since your days [began], [And] caused the sunrise to know its place;
For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of David. O Yahweh, our Lord, How excellent is your name in all the earth, Who has set your glory on the heavens!
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, The moon and the stars, which you have appointed;
For so has the Lord commanded us, [saying], "I have set you for a light of the Gentiles, That you should be for salvation to the uttermost part of the earth."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The beams of our house [are] cedar,.... Or "houses" k; where their bed was, and where they had fellowship and communion together. By which may be meant particular congregations or churches, in which houses Christ has a property, being of his building and beautifying; where he takes up his rest and residence, and where he feeds and feasts with his people, and to the privileges of which all the saints have a right: and by the "beams" of these houses may be intended the ministers of the word, who are pillars here, as James, John, and Cephas, were; and who are the means of supporting and strengthening such communities, by their excellent doctrines and exemplary lives: or common saints may be meant, who are also beams and pillars in the churches of Christ; and serve greatly to support, strengthen, and cement the spiritual building, fitly framed together: and these being of "cedar" wood, of a pleasant smell, and durable, may denote their gratefulness and acceptableness to Christ and his church, in the exercise of grace, and discharge of duty; and of their continuance and perseverance therein, having in them the incorruptible and immortal seed of divine grace; see Psalms 92:12;
[and] our rafters of fir; which Pliny says l is the best and strongest wood for roofing and raftering: by these may be meant the ordinances of the Gospel, which are that to the churches as "rafters" are to a house, the means of supporting and strengthening it; so by the ordinances saints are supported in their spiritual state, and by them their spiritual strength is renewed; and these being said to be of "fir", which is a pleasant and lasting wood, may signify the delight that is had in ordinances, and the continuance of them. Some render the word by "cypress" m; which is also of a pleasant smell n, and very durable, never admits of worms, nor ever rots, nor is ever sensible of old age o; and so may denote the pleasure that saints take in ordinances, and the long continuance of them, as of the present ones, which will remain until the second coming of Christ. Some think the "brutine" tree p is meant, which Pliny calls "bruta" q; and is near in sound to the word here used, is much like the cypress, and of a sweet smell, like cedar; it grows beyond Pasitigris, on Mount Zagras. Some will have it to be the tree of paradise; and, so applied to ordinances, may signify the same as before. The word for "rafters" is elsewhere rendered "gutters" and "troughs" for water; and some r render it so here, and are so called from water running in them: and as the grace of God is often expressed by water, this is commonly conveyed in the use of ordinances; these are the canals in which it runs. Moreover the same word is translated "galleries", in Song of Solomon 7:5; which, as Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, were buildings in high houses in which men walked from house to house, or from one end of the house to the other; and might be called by this name, from their droning along the sides of houses, and seem to be like our "balconies": now ordinances are the galleries or "walking places" s, where Christ and his people walk and converse together.
k בתינו "domorum nostrarum", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, c. "aedium nostrarum", Marckius. l Nat. Hist. l. 16. c. 42. m ברותים κυπαρισσοι, Sept. "cypressina", V. L. Tigurine version so David de Pomis, and others. n Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 16. c. 33. ευωδει κυπαρισσω, Theocrit. Epigram. 4. v. 7. o Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 16. c. 33. 40, 49. p "E brutis", Junius Tremellius, Ainsworth, Brightman, Marckius "brutiua", Cocceius, Michaelis. q Nat. Hist. l. 19. c. 17. r רהטינו "canales nostri"; so some in Vatablus, Tigurine version; "impluvium nostruim", Hiller. de Keri & Kethib, p. 84. s "Ambulachra nostra", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Marckius, Michaelis.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Song of Solomon 1:17. 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, Isaiah 32:2.
With this chapter the first day of the marriage ceremonies is supposed to end.
