Song of Solomon 1:9
I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariots.
In Context
10Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
Cross References
1 Kings 10:28The horses which Solomon had were brought out of Egypt. The king’s merchants received them in droves, each drove at a price.
Song of Solomon 1:15Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves.
Song of Solomon 2:10My beloved spoke, and said to me, “Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
Song of Solomon 4:1Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.
Song of Solomon 5:2I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
Isaiah 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they don’t look to the Holy One of Israel, and they don’t seek the LORD!
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 1:8-12
The Love of the Church to Christ. 7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions? 8 If thou know not, O thou fairest among women, go thy way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed thy kids beside the shepherds' tents. 9 I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots. 10 Thy cheeks are comely with rows of jewels, thy neck with chains of gold. 11… Read the whole commentary →