Song of Solomon 6:8

There are sixty queens, eighty concubines,and virgins without number.

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In The King James Version

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

In Context

7Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.

9My dove, my perfect one, is unique.She is her mother's only daughter.She is the favorite one of her who bore her.The daughters saw her, and called her blessed;the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

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Cross References

1 Kings 11:3He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

Psalms 45:9Kings' daughters are among your honorable women.At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

Revelation 7:9After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could number, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.

Matthew Henry on Song of Solomon 6:5-11

The Church's Confidence in Christ; The Love of Christ to the Church. 4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. 5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. 6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them. 7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks. 8 There are threescore queens,… Read the whole commentary →

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