Song of Solomon 4:1

Behold, thou art fair, my companion; 1 Behold, thou art fair; 1 Thine eyes are doves, 1 Beside thy veil: 1 Thy hair is as flocks of goats, 1 That have appeared from Gilead. 1

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Thy teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, 1 That have gone up from the washing; 1 All of them bearing twins, 1 And there is not a barren one among them. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 32:1And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a multitude of cattle, very great; and they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead; and the place was a place for cattle:

Psalms 45:11Be still, and know that I am God: 1 I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. 1

Song of Solomon 2:10My kinsman answers, and says to me, 1 Rise up, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove. 1

Song of Solomon 4:9My sister, my spouse, 1 Thou hast ravished my heart; 1 Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, 1 With one chain of thy neck. 1

Song of Solomon 6:5Turn away thine eyes from before me, 1 For they have ravished me: 1 Thy hair is as flocks of goats 1 Which have appeared from Gilead. 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

Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 4:1

In this chapter, I. Jesus Christ, having espoused his church to himself ( ch. iii. 11 ), highly commends her beauty in the several expressions of it, concluding her fair, all fair, ver. 1-5 and again, ver. 7 . II. He retires himself, and invites her with him, from the mountains of terror to those of delight, ver. 6 , 8 . III. He professes his love to her and his delight in her affection to him, ver. 9-14 . IV. She ascribes all she had that was valuable in her to him, and depends upon the continued influence of his… Read the whole commentary →

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