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Song of Solomon 4:1

Behold, you are beautiful, my love.Behold, you are beautiful.Your eyes are doves behind your veil.Your hair is as a flock of goats,that descend from Mount Gilead.

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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 like a newly shorn flock,which have come up from the washing,where every one of them has twins.None is bereaved among them.

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Cross References

Numbers 32:1Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;

Psalms 45:11So the king will desire your beauty,honor him, for he is your lord.

Song of Solomon 2:10My beloved spoke, and said to me,"Rise up, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.

Song of Solomon 4:9You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride.You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes,with one chain of your neck.

Song of Solomon 6:5Turn away your eyes from me,for they have overcome me.Your hair is like a flock of goats,that lie along the side of Gilead.

Song of Solomon 7:5Your head on you is like Carmel.The hair of your head like purple.The king is held captive in its tresses.

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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