Song of Solomon 6:13
Return, return, Shulammite! Return, return, that we may gaze at you. Why do you desire to gaze at the Shulammite, as at the dance of Mahanaim?
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In Context
12Without realizing it, my desire set me with my royal people’s chariots.
Cross References
Genesis 49:10The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. The obedience of the peoples will be to him.
2 Samuel 17:24Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.
Song of Solomon 1:6Don’t stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother’s sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven’t kept my own vineyard.
Isaiah 8:6“Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;
Jeremiah 3:22Return, you backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are the LORD our God.
Luke 7:44Turning to the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered into your house, and you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 6:12-13
The Love of Christ to the Church. 11 I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded. 12 Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib. 13 Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies. Christ having now returned to his spouse, and the breach being entirely made up, and the falling out of these lovers being… Read the whole commentary →