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Song of Solomon 5:10-16

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The Bride Praises Her Beloved

10 My beloved is radiant and 1ruddy, 2distinguished among ten thousand.
11 His head is the finest gold; 3his locks are wavy, black as a raven.
12 His 4eyes are like doves beside streams of water, bathed in milk, sitting beside a full pool.[a]
13 His 5cheeks are like 6beds of spices, mounds of sweet-smelling herbs. His lips are 7lilies, dripping 8liquid myrrh.
14 His arms are rods of gold, set with 9jewels. His body is polished ivory,[b] bedecked with 10sapphires.[c]
15 His legs are alabaster columns, set on bases of gold. His appearance is like 11Lebanon, choice as the cedars.
16 His 12mouth[d] is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O 13daughters of Jerusalem.
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Song of Solomon 5:10-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 5

This chapter begins with Christ's answer to the church's request; in which he informs her, that he was come into his garden, as she desired, and gives an account of what he had done there; and kindly invites his dear friends to feast with him there, So 5:1; Then she relates her case and circumstances, which followed upon this, her sleepy frame, and ungrateful carriage to her beloved; which he resenting, withdrew from her, and this gave her sensible pain, So 5:2-6; what treatment she met with from the watchmen; her charge to the daughters of Jerusalem; and the questions they asked about her beloved, So 5:7-9; which put her upon giving a large description of him, by each of his parts, head, hair So 5:10-15; And the chapter is concluded with a general commendation of him and his loveliness, and a claim of interest in So 5:16.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 13

  • 1. [1 Samuel 16:12]
  • 2. [Psalms 45:2]
  • 3. ver. 2
  • 4. Song of Songs 1:15; Song of Songs 4:1
  • 5. [Song of Songs 1:10]
  • 6. Song of Songs 6:2
  • 7. [Song of Songs 2:1]
  • 8. [See ver. 5 above]
  • 9. Exodus 28:20; Exodus 39:13; Ezekiel 1:16
  • 10. Exodus 24:10; Ezekiel 1:26; Ezekiel 10:1
  • 11. See 1 Kings 4:33
  • 12. [Song of Songs 7:9]
  • 13. [See ver. 8 above]

Footnotes 4

  • [a]. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  • [b]. The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
  • [c]. Hebrew lapis lazuli
  • [d]. Hebrew palate
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