Song of Songs 6:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young girls without number.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 45:14 : 14 She will come before the king in robes of needlework; the virgins in her train will come before you.
  • Rev 7:9 : 9 After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,
  • 1 Kgs 11:1 : 1 Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:
  • 1 Kgs 11:3 : 3 He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.
  • 2 Chr 11:21 : 21 Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: (for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)
  • Ps 45:9 : 9 Kings' daughters are among your noble women: on your right is the queen in gold of Ophir.

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  • Song 6:9-10
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    9 My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.

    10 Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?

  • Song 6:6-7
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    6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.

    7 Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.

  • 3 He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away.

  • 9 Kings' daughters are among your noble women: on your right is the queen in gold of Ophir.

  • 11 Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.

  • 21 Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: (for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

  • 65 As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven: and they had two hundred men and women to make music.

  • Num 31:33-35
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    33 And seventy-two thousand oxen,

    34 And sixty-one thousand asses;

    35 And thirty-two thousand persons, that is, women who had never had sex relations with a man.

  • 16 So the king went out, taking with him all the people of his house, but for ten of his women, who were to take care of the house.

  • Song 3:6-7
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    6 Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

    7 See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,

  • 67 As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women to make music.

  • 8 We have a young sister, and she has no breasts; what are we to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man?

  • 42 ... and they put jewels on her hands and beautiful crowns on her head.

  • 14 She will come before the king in robes of needlework; the virgins in her train will come before you.

  • 12 My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.

  • 6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

  • 2 Then the servants who were waiting on the king said to him, Let search be made for some fair young virgins for the king:

  • 15 Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;

  • 9 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great store of spices and jewels: never had such spices been seen as the queen of Sheba gave to Solomon.

  • 44 And thirty-six thousand oxen,

  • 1 Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

  • 4 And with them, recorded in generations by their families, were bands of fighting-men, thirty-six thousand of them, for they had a great number of wives and sons.

  • 1 Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?

  • 18 Seventy thousand he put to the work of transport, eighty thousand to cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers to put the people to work.

  • Song 1:8-9
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    8 If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.

    9 I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.

  • Song 4:1-4
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    1 See, you are fair, my love, you are fair; you have the eyes of a dove; your hair is as a flock of goats, which take their rest on the side of Gilead.

    2 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep whose wool is newly cut, which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.

    3 Your red lips are like a bright thread, and your mouth is fair of form; the sides of your head are like pomegranate fruit under your veil.

    4 Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.

  • 3 And David came to his house at Jerusalem: and the king took the ten women to whom he had given the care of the house, and had them shut up, and gave them the necessaries of life, but did not go near them. So they were shut up till the day of their death, living as widows.

  • 13 And in this way the girl went in to the king; whatever she had a desire for was given to her to take with her from the women's house into the house of the king.

  • 13 Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.

  • Song 1:3-4
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    3 Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

    4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

  • 30 Gideon had seventy sons, the offspring of his body; for he had a number of wives.

  • 10 And she gave the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold, and a great store of spices and jewels: never again was such a wealth of spices seen as that which the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon.

  • 4 You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.

  • 9 What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?

  • 12 A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

  • 16 Then two loose women of the town came and took their places before the king;

  • Eccl 7:27-28
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    27 Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,

    28 For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.

  • 2 And Solomon had seventy thousand men numbered for transport, and eighty thousand for cutting stone in the mountains, and three thousand, six hundred as overseers.

  • 3 Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth.