Song of Solomon 6:8
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
In Context
7Your brow behind your veil is like a slice of pomegranate.
Cross References
1 Kings 11:3He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
Psalms 45:9The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
Revelation 7:9After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 6:5-11
The Church's Confidence in Christ; The Love of Christ to the Church. 4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. 5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. 6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them. 7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks. 8 There are threescore queens,… Read the whole commentary →