Song of Solomon 1:17

¹⁰For he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

¹²The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

⁴Come to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. ⁵You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

⁵Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.

⁹If she is a wall, we will build on her a turret of silver. If she is a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.

⁹So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

¹⁵but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. ¹⁶Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God^[+] was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.

⁸“Send me also cedar trees, cypress trees, and algum trees out of Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. Behold, my servants will be with your servants, ⁹even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.

³Opposite the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and opposite the pavement which belonged to the outer court, was gallery against gallery in the three stories.

¹⁶the thresholds, and the closed windows, and the galleries around on their three stories, opposite the threshold, with wood ceilings all around, and from the ground up to the windows, (now the windows were covered),