Song of Solomon 4:1
Behold, thou art faire, my loue: behold, thou art faire: thine eyes are like the doues: among thy lockes thine heare is like the flocke of goates, which looke downe from the mountaine of Gilead.
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Numbers 32:1Nowe the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad had an exceeding great multitude of cattell: and they sawe the lande of Iazer, and the lande of Gilead, that it was an apt place for cattel.
Psalms 45:11So shall the King haue pleasure in thy beautie: for he is thy Lord, and reuerence thou him.
Song of Solomon 2:10My welbeloued spake and said vnto me, Arise, my loue, my faire one, and come thy way.
Song of Solomon 4:9My sister, my spouse, thou hast wounded mine heart: thou hast wounded mine heart with one of thine eyes, and with a chaine of thy necke.
Song of Solomon 6:5Thy teeth are like a flocke of sheepe, which goe vp from the washing, which euery one bring out twinnes, and none is barren among them.
Song of Solomon 7:5Thine head vpon thee is as skarlet, and the bush of thine head like purple: the King is tyed in the rafters.
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 →