Discovery BoxPsalms 45:8 
Context45:8 All your garments are perfumed with 1 myrrh, aloes, and cassia.
From the luxurious palaces 2 comes the music of stringed instruments that makes you happy. 3
Psalms 133:2
Context133:2 It is like fine oil poured on the head
which flows down the beard 4 –
Aaron’s beard,
and then flows down his garments. 5
1 tn The words “perfumed with” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
2 tn Heb “the palaces of ivory.” The phrase “palaces of ivory” refers to palaces that had ivory panels and furniture decorated with ivory inlays. Such decoration with ivory was characteristic of a high level of luxury. See 1 Kgs 22:39 and Amos 3:15.
3 tn Heb “from the palaces of ivory stringed instrument[s] make you happy.”
4 tn Heb “[it is] like the good oil on the head, going down on the beard.”
5 tn Heb “which goes down in accordance with his measured things.” The Hebrew phrase מִדּוֹתָיו (middotayv, “his measured things”) refers here to the robes worn by Aaron. HALOT 546 s.v. *מַד derives the form from מַד (midah, “robe”) rather than מִדָּה (middah, “measured thing”). Ugaritic md means “robe” and is pluralized mdt.
