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.

beams

Songs 8:9 If she be a wall, we will build on her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will enclose 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 your servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon...

Psalm 92:12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

1 Timothy 3:15,16 But if I tarry long, that you may know how you ought to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God...

Hebrews 11:10 For he looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

1 Peter 2:4,5 To whom coming, as to a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious...

rafters

Songs 7:5 Your head on you is like Carmel, and the hair of your 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...

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...