Song of Songs 6:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

There may be sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and young women without number.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 45:14 : 14 In embroidered robes she is escorted to the king. Her attendants, the maidens of honor who follow her, are led before you.
  • Rev 7:9 : 9 After these things I looked, and here was an enormous crowd that no one could count, made up of persons from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb dressed in long white robes, and with palm branches in their hands.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1 : 1 The Lord Punishes Solomon for Idolatry King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women(besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.
  • 1 Kgs 11:3 : 3 He had 700 royal wives and 300 concubines; his wives had a powerful influence over him.
  • 2 Chr 11:21 : 21 Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines. He had eighteen wives and sixty concubines; he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
  • Ps 45:9 : 9 Princesses are among your honored women, your bride stands at your right hand, wearing jewelry made with gold from Ophir.

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