Proverbs 7:16 (BSB)
I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.
From Proverbs 7. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 7:16
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 7:6-23: Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 7:16: I have perfumed my bed,.... As she had made it entertaining to the senses of seeing and feeling, it being showy and gaudy, soft and easy; so to the sense of smelling; and all to provoke lust, and draw into her embraces; by censing it with incense, as Donesh in Jarchi; or by sprinkling (s) a liquor, made of the following spices, on the head...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 7:16: my bed--or, "couch," adorned in the costliest manner.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 7:16-18: Pro 7:16-18 Thus she found him, and described to him the enjoyment which awaited him in eating and drinking, then in the pleasures of love. 16 “My bed have I spread with cushions, Variegated coverlets, Egyptian linen; 17 I have sprinkled my couch With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.