Song of Solomon 3:4

It was as a little while after I parted from them, 1 That I found him whom my soul loves: 1 I held him, and did not let him go, 1 Until I brought him into my mother’s house, 1 And into the chamber of her that conceived me. 1

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In The King James Version

It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

In Context

3The watchmen who go their rounds in the city found me. 1 I said, Have ye seen him whom my soul loves? 1

5I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, 1 By the powers and by the virtues of the field, 1 That ye rouse not nor awake my love, until he please. 1

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Cross References

Proverbs 4:13Take hold of my instruction; let it not go— 1 But keep it for thyself for thy life. 1

Song of Solomon 1:7Tell me, thou whom my soul loves, 1 Where thou tendest thy flock, where thou causest them to rest at noon, 1 Lest I become as one that is veiled by the flocks of thy companions. 1

Song of Solomon 7:5Thy neck is as an ivory tower; 1 Thine eyes are as pools in Heshbon, 1 By the gates of the daughter of many: 1 Thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon, 1 Looking toward Damascus. 1

Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken in secret, nor in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek vanity: I, even I, am the Lord, speaking righteousness, and proclaiming truth.

Isaiah 54:1Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that dost not travail: for more are the children of the desolate than of her that has a husband: for the Lord has said,

Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 3:2-6

The Love of the Church to Christ. 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? 4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him… Read the whole commentary →

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