Song of Solomon 1:16 KJV — MannaFest

Song of Solomon 1:16

Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.

KJV

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ASV

Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: Also our couch is green.

WEB

How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.

YLT

Lo, thou art fair, my love, yea, pleasant, Yea, our couch is green,

DBT

Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant; Also our bed is green.

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Song of Solomon — Love poetry in eight chapters — the Bible's most surprising book. A chiastic structure; a bride and bridegroom alternating in dialogue; and a three-school interpretive tradition the site surfaces without adjudication.

Author: Traditional: Solomon (1:1 ''the song of songs, which is Solomon's''). Critical: the ''of Solomon'' construction allows ''about Solomon'' or ''to Solomon'' and opens the authorship question. §7.9 surfaces; most readings keep Solomonic association.
Date: Solomonic reading: c. 965–930 BC. Critical reading: later editorial compilation.

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10 verses on the floor

Song of Solomon 2:3
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Psalms 45:2
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Zechariah 9:17
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
Song of Solomon 3:7
Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.
Revelation 5:11–13
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;

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The subject is pleasing, and therefore fit to be treated of in a song, in singing which we may make melody with our hearts unto the Lord. It is evangelical; and gospel-times should be times of joy, for gospel-grace puts a new song into our mouths, Ps. xcviii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

I am but a faint and imperfect copy, I am but thy umbra -- the shadow of thee, John i. Thou art fair in thyself and (which is more) pleasant to all that are thine. Many are fair enough to look at, and yet the sourness of their temper renders them unpleasant; but thou art fair, yea, pleasant. " Christ is pleasant, as he is ours, in covenant with us, in relation to us.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

7 ), so believers are joint-heirs with Christ, Rom. viii. They are his institutions and their privileges; in them Christ and believers meet. She does not call them mine, for a believer will own nothing as his but what Christ shall have an interest in, nor thine, for Christ has said, All that I have is thine, Luke xv.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

In this verse there is an incidental allusion, in So 1:15, to the offering (Lu 2:24). So the "cedar and fir" ceiling refers to the temple (1Ki 5:6-10; 6:15-18); type of the heavenly temple (Re 21:22).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Behold - The church here again speaks, and retorts Christ's words; thou, and thou only art fair indeed. Pleasant - As thou art beautiful in thyself, so thou art amiable and pleasant in thy condescention to me. Bed - This seems to denote the place where the church enjoys sweet fellowship with Christ, by his spirit accompanying his ordinances.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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