Song of Solomon 4:4
Your neck is like the tower of David, which was built with ramparts: a thousand shields are hanging from it, all the armor of the strong.
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In Context
5Your two breasts are like two young does, twins that pasture among the lilies.
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:21O mountains of Gilboa, let neither dew, nor rain fall over you, and may these not be the fields of the first-fruits. For in that place, the shield of the valiant was cast away, the shield of Saul, as if he had not been anointed with oil.
2 Chronicles 9:15And so, king Solomon made two hundred gold spears, from six hundred gold pieces, the amount used for each spear,
Nehemiah 3:19And beside him, Ezer, the son of Jeshua, the leader of Mizpah, built another measure, opposite the ascent to the strongest corner.
Song of Solomon 7:4Your two breasts are like two young twin does.
Song of Solomon 8:10If she is a wall, let us build a rampart of silver upon it. If she is a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.
Micah 4:8And you, cloudy tower of the flock of the daughter of Zion, even to you it will come. And the first power will arrive, the kingdom to the daughter of Jerusalem.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 4:2-8
The Beauty of the Church. 1 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. 2 Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. 3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. 4 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for… Read the whole commentary →