Song of Songs 6:1-8

Friends

1 Where has your beloved gone, most beautiful of women? Which way did your beloved turn, that we may look for him with you?

She

2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies.

3 I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine; he browses among the lilies.

He

4 You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.

5 Turn your eyes from me; they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead.

6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing. Each has its twin, not one of them is missing.

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

8 Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number;

Song of Songs 6:1-8 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 6

The discourse between the church and the daughters of Jerusalem is continued in this chapter: they inquire whither her beloved was gone, in order to seek him with her, So 6:1; she tells them where he was gone, and for what purpose he went thither, and what he was doing there; and claims and asserts her interest in him, So 6:2,3; Then follows a commendation of the church by Christ, who admires her beauty, and describes her by her eyes, hair So 6:4-7; and prefers her to all others; being a singular and choice one to him, and the praise of others, So 6:8-10; and next he gives an account of his going into his garden, and his design in it, and of what happened to him there, So 6:11,12. And the chapter is concluded with a charge to the Shulamite, to turn herself, that she might be looked upon; which occasions a question, to which an answer is returned, So 6:13.

Cross References

• 1. Song of Songs 5:6
• 2. S Song of Songs 1:8
• 3. Song of Songs 5:6
• 4. S Song of Songs 4:12
• 5. Song of Songs 5:13
• 6. Song of Songs 7:10
• 7. S Song of Songs 2:16
• 8. S Joshua 12:24; S 1 Kings 15:33
• 9. Psalms 48:2; Psalms 50:2
• 10. ver 10; S Numbers 1:52
• 11. S Song of Songs 4:1
• 12. Song of Songs 4:2
• 13. S Genesis 24:65
• 14. Song of Songs 4:3
• 15. Psalms 45:9
• 16. S Genesis 22:24; S Esther 2:14