The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are fragrant firs.
Cross References
1 Kings 6:9So Solomon built the temple and finished it, roofing it with beams and planks of cedar.
1 Kings 6:10He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.
2 Chronicles 3:5He paneled the main room with cypress, which he overlaid with fine gold and decorated with palm trees and chains.
Jeremiah 22:14who says, 'I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.' So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
Treasury of Scripture
The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.
beams
Song of Solomon 8:9
If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
2 Chronicles 2:8,9
Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants, …
Psalm 92:12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
rafters
Song of Solomon 7:5
Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
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;
Ezekiel 42:3
Over against the twenty cubits which were for the inner court, and over against the pavement which was for the utter court, was gallery against gallery in three stories.
