Song of Songs 1:9

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I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

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  • Song 2:2 : 2 Like a lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
  • Song 2:10 : 10 My beloved spoke and said to me, 'Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.'
  • Song 2:13 : 13 The fig tree ripens its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away.
  • Song 4:1 : 1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
  • Song 4:7 : 7 You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no blemish in you.
  • Song 5:2 : 2 I was sleeping, but my heart was awake. I heard the sound of my beloved knocking: "Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is drenched with dew and my hair with the dampness of the night."
  • Song 6:4 : 4 You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my love, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as an army with banners.
  • Isa 31:1 : 1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, relying on horses and trusting in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are strong, but who do not look to the Holy One of Israel and do not seek the LORD.
  • John 15:14-15 : 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know what his master is doing. Instead, I have called you friends because everything I heard from my Father I have made known to you.
  • 1 Kgs 10:28 : 28 Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue—the king’s merchants purchased them from Kue at the standard price.
  • 2 Chr 1:14-17 : 14 Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen; he had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also kept with him in Jerusalem. 15 The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as plentiful as sycamore trees in the foothills. 16 Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue—the king’s traders bought them from Kue at the market price. 17 A chariot was imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for one hundred and fifty. They also exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.
  • Song 1:15 : 15 Behold, you are beautiful, my love! Behold, you are beautiful; your eyes are like doves.

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  • Song 1:13-16
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    13 My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.

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    16 Behold, you are handsome, my beloved, truly delightful. Our bed is lush and green.

  • Song 4:1-11
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    1 Behold, you are beautiful, my love, behold, you are beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.

    2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep coming up from the washing place, each one having its twin, and there is none missing.

    3 Your lips are like a scarlet thread, and your speech is lovely. Your cheeks are like a slice of pomegranate behind your veil.

    4 Your neck is like the tower of David, built with layers; a thousand shields hang on it, all the shields of mighty warriors.

    5 Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, grazing among the lilies.

    6 Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense.

    7 You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no blemish in you.

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    10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!

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

    4 You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my love, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as an army with banners.

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    1 Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

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    5 I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles and the does of the field: do not awaken or arouse love until it pleases.

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    16 His mouth is sweetness itself; he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, this is my friend, daughters of Jerusalem.

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    16 My beloved is mine and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.

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    13 His cheeks are like a bed of spices, towers of scented herbs. His lips are lilies dripping with flowing myrrh.

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    10 Your mouth is like the finest wine, flowing smoothly for my beloved, gliding over the lips of those who are asleep.

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