Song of Solomon 5:9

What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, 1 O thou beautiful among women? 1 What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, 1 That thou hast so charged us? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

In Context

8I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, 1 By the powers and the virtues of the field: 1 If ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? 1 That I am wounded with love. 1

10My kinsman is white and ruddy, 1 Chosen out from myriads. 1

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Cross References

Song of Solomon 1:8If thou know not thyself, thou fair one among women, 1 Go thou forth by the footsteps of the flocks, 1 And feed thy kids by the shepherds’ tents. 1

Song of Solomon 6:9My dove, my perfect one is one; 1 She is the only one of her mother; 1 She is the choice of her that bore her. 1 The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, 1 Yea, and the concubines, and they will praise her. 1

Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 5:3-9

The Love of Christ to the Church; Spiritual Desertion. 2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. 3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with… Read the whole commentary →

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