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Song of Solomon 4:1

Behold, you are fair, my companion; behold, you are fair; your eyes are doves, beside your veil: your hair is as flocks of goats, that have appeared from Galaad.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

2Your teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and there is not a barren one among them.

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Cross References

Numbers 32:1And the children of Ruben and the children of Gad had + 32:1 Gr. cattle, a multitude, greatly a multitude. a multitude of cattle, very great; and they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Galaad; and the place was a place for cattle:

Psalms 45:11The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our helper.

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

Song of Solomon 4:9My sister, my spouse, you have ravished my heart; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

Song of Solomon 6:5Your teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing, all of them bearing twins, and there is none barren among them: your lips are as a thread of scarlet, and your speech is comely.

Song of Solomon 7:5Your head upon you is as Carmel, and the curls of your hair like scarlet; the king is bound in the galleries.

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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