Song of Solomon 5:15
His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold.His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
14His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl.His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
Cross References
Exodus 26:19You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
1 Kings 4:33He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.
Psalms 92:13They are planted in the Lord's house.They will flourish in our God's courts.
Song of Solomon 4:11Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb.Honey and milk are under your tongue.The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
Lamentations 4:7Her consecrated ones were purer than snow, whiter than milk; their bodiesmore ruddy than rubies, their appearance was like lapis lazuli.HET
Zechariah 9:17For how great is his goodness,and how great is his beauty!Grain will make the young men flourish,and new wine the virgins.
Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 5:10-16
Enquiring after the Excellencies of Christ; The Church's Confidence in Christ. 9 What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us? 10 My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. 11 His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. 12 His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. 13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as… Read the whole commentary →