Psalms 45:8

The king's garments are fragrant with myrrh, aloes, and cassia amid music from ivory palaces. It matters because it conveys the joy and splendor of the royal wedding.

Cross-references · 19

• Song 1:3Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured out, therefore the virgins love you.
• John 19:39Nicodemus, who at first came to Jesus by night, also came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred Roman pounds.
• 2 Cor 2:14–16Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.
• Song 4:6Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.
• Matt 2:11They came into the house and saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Opening their treasures, they offered to him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
• Exod 30:23–24“Also take fine spices: of liquid myrrh, five hundred shekels; and of fragrant cinnamon half as much, even two hundred and fifty; and of fragrant cane, two hundred and fifty;
• Ps 16:11You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.
• Song 5:1I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.
• John 14:2In my Father’s house are many homes. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
• Song 3:6Who is this who comes up from the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all spices of the merchant?
• Amos 3:15I will strike the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory will perish, and the great houses will have an end,” says Yahweh.
• Song 5:13His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
• 1 Kgs 22:39Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
• Song 4:13–14Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants,
• Ps 150:4Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!
• Song 1:13My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.
• Song 5:5I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
• Heb 12:2looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Ps 45:15With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall enter into the king’s palace.

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