Chapter 6
Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.
O thou
4,9,10 1.8 2.2 5.9 1.4 Ruth 1.16,17 2.12 Isaiah 2.5 Jeremiah 14.8 Zechariah 8.21-23 Acts 5.11-14
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
gone
11 4.12-16 5.1 Isaiah 58.11 61.11 Matthew 18.20 28.20
the beds
feed
1.7,8 Isaiah 40.11 Ezekiel 34.23 Zephaniah 3.17 John 4.34,35 Revelation 7.17
and to
2.2 Isaiah 57.1 John 14.3 17.24 Philippians 1.21-23 1 Thessalonians 4.13,14
I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
my beloved's
2.16 7.10 Hebrews 8.10 Revelation 21.2-4
he
Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
beautiful
10 2.14 4.7 5.2 Ezekiel 16.13,14 Ephesians 5.27
as Tirzah
comely
Psalms 48.2 Lamentations 2.15 Revelation 21.2
terrible
10 Numbers 24.5-9 Psalms 144.4-8 Zechariah 12.3 2 Corinthians 10.4 Revelation 19.14-16
Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.
away
Genesis 32.26-28 Exodus 32.10 Jeremiah 15.1 Matthew 15.27,28
overcome me
or, puffed me up.
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.
As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks.
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
1 Kings 11.1 2 Chronicles 11.21 Psalms 45.14 Revelation 7.9
My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.
My dove
one; she
Numbers 23.9 Psalms 45.9 Galatians 4.26 Ephesians 4.3-6
The daughters
Deuteronomy 4.6,7 33.29 Psalms 126.2 Proverbs 31.28,29 2 Thessalonians 1.10 Revelation 21.9,10
Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?
Who
3.6 8.5 Isaiah 63.1 Revelation 21.10,11
looketh
2 Samuel 23.4 Job 11.17 Proverbs 4.18 Isaiah 58.8 Hosea 6.5 Revelation 22.16
fair
clear
Psalms 14.5 Malachi 4.2 Matthew 13.43 17.2 Revelation 10.1 12.1 21.23 22.5
terrible
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranates budded.
the garden
2 4.12-15 5.1 Genesis 2.9 Psalms 92.12-15 John 15.16
to see the
7.12 Isaiah 5.2-4 Mark 11.13 Luke 13.7 Acts 15.36
Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.
Or ever I was aware
Heb. I knew not. soul.
Jeremiah 31.18-20 Hosea 11.8,9 Luke 15.20
made me like the chariots of Amminadib
or, set me on the chariots of my willing people.
Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.
return
2.14 Jeremiah 3.12-14,22 Hosea 14.1-4
What
1.6 Luke 7.44 15.10 2 Thessalonians 1.10
Shulamite
Genesis 49.10 Psalms 76.2 Isaiah 8.6 John 9.7 Hebrews 7.2
As
John 10.16 Romans 3.29 Ephesians 2.14-17
two armies
or, Mahanaim.