Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other

Song of Solomon 1

He

8 If you do not know,
O u most beautiful among women,
follow in the tracks of the flock,
and pasture your young goats
beside the shepherds' tents.

9 I compare you, v my love,
to w a mare among Pharaoh's chariots.
 10 x Your cheeks are lovely with ornaments,
your neck with strings of jewels.

Others

11 We will make for you 1 ornaments of gold,
studded with silver.

She

12 While y the king was on his couch,
my z nard gave forth its fragrance.
 13 My beloved is to me a sachet of a myrrh
that lies between my breasts.
 14 My beloved is to me a cluster of b henna blossoms
in the vineyards of c Engedi.

He

15 d Behold, e you are beautiful, f my love;
behold, you are beautiful;
your g eyes are doves.

She

16 Behold, you are beautiful, h my beloved, truly i delightful.
Our couch is green;
 17 the beams of our house are j cedar;
our rafters are j pine.

Song of Solomon 2

1 I am a rose 2 of Sharon,
k a lily of the valleys.

He

2 As a lily among brambles,
so is l my love among the young women.

She

3 As an apple tree among the trees of the forest,
so is my m beloved among the young men.
With great delight I sat n in his shadow,
and his o fruit was sweet to my taste.
 4 He p brought me to the banqueting house, 3
and his q banner over me was love.
 5 Sustain me with r raisins;
refresh me with apples,
s for I am sick with love.
 6 His t left hand is under my head,
and his right hand u embraces me!
 7 I v adjure you, 4 O w daughters of Jerusalem,
by x the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.

  1. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 5:9
    What is your beloved more than another beloved, O most beautiful among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us?
    Song of Solomon 6:1
    Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
  2. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 1:15
    Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.
  3. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 1:16 - 17
    And Solomon's import of horses was from Egypt and Kue, and the king's traders would buy them from Kue for a price.
  4. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 5:13
    His cheeks are like beds of spices, mounds of sweet-smelling herbs. His lips are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh.
    Ezekiel 16:11 - 14
    And I adorned you with ornaments and put bracelets on your wrists and a chain on your neck.
  5. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 1:4
    Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.
  6. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 4:13 - 14
    Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard.
    Mark 14:3
    And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head.
    John 12:3
    Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
  7. Cross References
    Psalms 45:8
    Your robes are all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia. From ivory palaces stringed instruments make you glad.
    John 19:39
    Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight.
  8. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 4:13
    Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard.
  9. Cross References
    1 Samuel 23:29
    And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of Engedi.
  10. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 4:1
    Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
  11. Cross References
    Ezekiel 16:13
    Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen and silk and embroidered cloth. You ate fine flour and honey and oil. You grew exceedingly beautiful and advanced to royalty.
  12. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 1:9
    I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh...
    Song of Solomon 2:2
    As a lily among brambles, so is my love among t...
    Song of Solomon 2:10
    My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my lo...
    Song of Solomon 2:13
    The fig tree ripens its figs, and the vines are...
    Song of Solomon 4:1
    Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you...
    Song of Solomon 4:7
    You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is...
    Song of Solomon 5:2
    I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My be...
    Song of Solomon 6:4
    You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, lovely as...
  13. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 4:1
    Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats leaping down the slopes of Gilead.
    Song of Solomon 5:12
    His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk, sitting beside a full pool.
  14. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 2:3
    As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
  15. Cross References
    2 Samuel 1:23
    Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.
    2 Samuel 1:26
    I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.
  16. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:24
    By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon, to cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses, to come to its remotest height, its most fruitful forest.
    Isaiah 60:13
    The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
    Ezekiel 31:8
    The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; neither were the plane trees like its branches; no tree in the garden of God was its equal in beauty.
  17. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:24
    By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon, to cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses, to come to its remotest height, its most fruitful forest.
    Isaiah 60:13
    The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the pine, to beautify the place of my sanctuary, and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
    Ezekiel 31:8
    The cedars in the garden of God could not rival it, nor the fir trees equal its boughs; neither were the plane trees like its branches; no tree in the garden of God was its equal in beauty.
  18. Cross References
    Hosea 14:5
    I will be like the dew to Israel; he shall blossom like the lily; he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon.
    Song of Solomon 5:13
    His cheeks are like beds of spices, mounds of sweet-smelling herbs. His lips are lilies, dripping liquid myrrh.
  19. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 1:15
    Behold, you are beautiful, my love; behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves.
  20. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 1:16
    Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our couch is green.
  21. Cross References
    Isaiah 25:4
    For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall.
    Isaiah 32:2
    Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
  22. Cross References
    Revelation 22:2
    Through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
  23. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 1:4
    Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.
  24. Cross References
    Psalms 20:5
    May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!
  25. Cross References
    2 Samuel 6:19
    And distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins to each one. Then all the people departed, each to his house.
    1 Chronicles 16:3
    And distributed to all Israel, both men and women, to each a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins.
    Hosea 3:1
    And the Lord said to me, "Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.
  26. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 5:8
    I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.
  27. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 8:3
    His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me!
    Deuteronomy 33:27
    The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.
  28. Cross References
    Proverbs 4:8
    Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.
  29. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 3:5
    I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
    Song of Solomon 5:8 - 9
    I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.
    Song of Solomon 8:4
    I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.
  30. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 1:5
    I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
  31. Cross References
    Song of Solomon 2:9
    My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice.
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