Song of Solomon 6:8

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and maidens without number.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

In Context

7Thy temples are like a pomegranate split open behind thy veil.

9My dove, my undefiled, is but one; she is the only one of her mother; she is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her happy; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

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Cross References

1 Kings 11:3And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

Psalms 45:9(45-10) Kings' daughters are among thy favourites; at thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

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 →

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