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Song of Solomon 6:8
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There are sixty queensand eighty concubinesand young women without number.
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, And virgins without number.
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
"There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, And young women without number;
There may be sixty queens and eighty slave women and so many girls you cannot count them,
"There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, And maidens without number;
There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, And virgins without number.
There are threescore Queenes and fourescore concubines & of the damsels without nober.
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines,And maidens without number;
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,
What if I could have sixty queens, eighty wives, and thousands of others!
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, as well as young women beyond number;
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number:
There might be 60 queens and 80 slave women, and young women too many to count,
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines and virgins without number.
Sixty queens there are, eighty concubines, and maidens beyond number.
Sixty of them are queens, and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
There are thre score quenes, foure score concubynes, and yonge weme without nombre.
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number.
There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young girls without number.
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and maidens without number.
There are threescore Queenes, and fourescore concubines, and virgins without number.
There are threescore queenes, fourescore wiues, and damselles without number.
My dove, my perfect one is one; she is the only one of her mother; she is the choice of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and the queens will pronounce her blessed, yea, and the concubines, and they will praise her.
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
Sixti ben queenys, and eiyti ben secundarie wyues; and of yong damesels is noon noumbre.
There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, And virgins without number.
There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
There may be sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and young women without number.
There are sixty queens And eighty concubines, And virgins without number.
Even among sixty queens and eighty concubines and countless young women,
There are sixty queens, and eighty women kept who act like wives, and there are too many young women to number who have never had a man.
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.
Threescore, are the queens, and, fourscore, are the concubines, - and, virgins, there are, without number.
(6-7) There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.
Sixty are queens, and eighty concubines, And virgins without number.
There's no one like her on earth, never has been, never will be. She's a woman beyond compare. My dove is perfection, Pure and innocent as the day she was born, and cradled in joy by her mother. Everyone who came by to see her exclaimed and admired her— All the fathers and mothers, the neighbors and friends, blessed and praised her:
"There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, And maidens without number;
Contextual Overview
The Man
My love, you are as beautiful as Jerusalem, as lovely as the city of Tirzah, as breathtaking as these great cities. 5 Turn your eyes away from me; they are holding me captive. Your hair dances like a flock of goats bounding down the hills of Gilead. 6 Your teeth are as white as a flock of sheep that have just been washed. Not one of them is missing; they are all perfectly matched. 7 Your cheeks glow behind your veil. 8 Let the king have sixty queens, eighty concubines, young women without number! 9 But I love only one, and she is as lovely as a dove. She is her mother's only daughter, her mother's favorite child. All women look at her and praise her; queens and concubines sing her praises. 10 Who is this whose glance is like the dawn? She is beautiful and bright, as dazzling as the sun or the moon.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
1 Kings 11:1, 2 Chronicles 11:21, Psalms 45:14, Revelation 7:9
Reciprocal: Judges 19:1 - a concubine Psalms 45:9 - Kings' Proverbs 31:10 - can Proverbs 31:29 - thou Song of Solomon 1:3 - the virgins Isaiah 7:15 - Butter Matthew 25:1 - ten Mark 2:19 - Can Revelation 14:4 - for
Cross-References
God looked at the world and saw that it was evil, for the people were all living evil lives.
I am going to send a flood on the earth to destroy every living being. Everything on the earth will die,
You have done me a great favor and saved my life. But the hills are too far away; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die before I get there.
The Lord is our protector and glorious king, blessing us with kindness and honor. He does not refuse any good thing to those who do what is right.
He protects everyone who loves him, but he will destroy the wicked.
If you do this, both God and people will be pleased with you.
Those who find me find life, and the Lord will be pleased with them.
The Lord is pleased with good people, but condemns those who plan evil.
In the desert I showed mercy to those people who had escaped death. When the people of Israel longed for rest,
The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Mary; God has been gracious to you.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. In this verse and Song of Solomon 6:9 the church is commended as she stood related to others; and is compared with them, and preferred to them. The words may be considered either as an assertion, "there are", c. or as a supposition, "though there be", c. yet Christ's church is but one, and excels them all. "Queens" are principal and lawful wives of kings "concubines", secondary or half wives, as the word i signifies who were admitted to the bed, but their children did not inherit: "virgins", unmarried persons, maids of honour, who waited on the queen. The allusion is to the custom of kings and great personages, who had many wives, and more concubines, and a large number of virgins to wait on them; see 1 Kings 11:3; or to a nuptial solemnity, and the ceremony of introducing the bride to the bridegroom, attended with a large number of persons of distinction; and so Theocritus k speaks of four times sixty virgins attending the nuptials of Menelaus and Helena; see Psalms 45:9. By all which may be meant either the kingdoms and nations of the world; by "queens", the more large, rich and flourishing kingdoms; by "concubines", inferior states; and by "virgins without number", the vast multitudes of inhabitants that fill them; but all, put together, are not equal to the church; see Song of Solomon 2:2; or else false churches; by "queens", such who boast of their riches and number, as the church of Rome, Revelation 18:7; by "concubines", such as are inferior in those things, but equally corrupt, as Arians, Socinians, c. and by "virgins without number", the multitudes of poor, weak, ignorant people, seduced by them and what figure soever these make, or pretensions to be the true churches of Christ, they are none of his, his spouse is preferred to them all. Or rather true believers in Christ, of different degrees, are here meant; queens, those that have the greatest share of gifts grace, most nearness to Christ, and communion with him; by "concubines", believers of a lower class, and of a more servile spirit, and yet sometimes are favoured with, fellowship with Christ; and by "virgins", young converts, who have not so large an experience as the former; and this distribution agrees with 1 John 2:13; and the rather this may be the sense, since each of these are said to praise the church in Song of Solomon 6:9, who is preferable to them, and includes them all.
i פילגשים "secundariae uxores", Michaelis. k Idyll. 18. v. 24.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The section might be entitled, “Renewed declaration of love after brief estrangement.”
Song of Solomon 6:4
Tirzah ... Jerusalem - Named together as the then two fairest cities of the land. For Jerusalem compare Psalms 48:2. “Tirzah” (i. e., “Grace” or “Beauty “)was an old Canaanite royal city Joshua 12:24. It became again a royal residence during the reigns of Baasha and his three successors in the kingdom of the ten tribes, and may well therefore have been famed for its beauty in the time of Solomon.
Terrible as ... - Awe-inspiring as the bannered (hosts). The warlike image, like others in the Song, serves to enhance the charm of its assured peace.
Song of Solomon 6:5
Even for the king the gentle eyes of the bride have an awe-striking majesty. Such is the condescension of love. Now follows Song of Solomon 6:5-7 the longest of the repetitions which abound in the Song, marking the continuance of the king’s affection as when first solemnly proclaimed Song of Solomon 4:1-6. The two descriptions belong, according to some (Christian) expositors, to the Church of different periods, e. g. to the primitive Church in the splendor of her first vocation, and to the Church under Constantine; other (Jewish) expositors apply them to “the congregation of Israel” under the first and second temples respectively.
Song of Solomon 6:9
The king contrasts the bride with the other claimants for her royal estate or favor Song of Solomon 6:8. She not only outshines them all for him, but herself has received from them disinterested blessing and praise.
This passage is invaluable as a divine witness to the principle of monogamy under the Old Testament and in the luxurious age of Solomon.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Song of Solomon 6:8. There are threescore queens — Though there be sixty queens, and eighty concubines, or secondary wives, and virgins innumerable, in my harem, yet thou, my dove, my undefiled, art אצת achath, ONE, the ONLY ONE, she in whom I delight beyond all.
