Song of Solomon 6:8 KJV — MannaFest

Song of Solomon 6:8

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

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ASV

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number.

WEB

There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number,

YLT

Sixty are queens, and eighty concubines, And virgins without number.

DBT

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number:

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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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Proverbs 31:10
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Psalms 45:14
She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
Proverbs 31:29
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
1 Kings 11:3
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
1 Kings 11:1
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

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(2.) They offer their service to the spouse to accompany her in quest of him: We will seek him with thee. Those that would find Christ must seek him, seek him early, seek him diligently; and it is best seeking Christ in concert, to join with those that are seeking him. We must seek for communion with Christ in communion with saints.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

All the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them, are nothing, in Christ's account, compared with the church, which is made up of the excellent ones of the earth, the precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, and more excellent than their neighbours.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

threescore--indefinite number, as in So 3:7. Not queens, &c., of Solomon, but witnesses of the espousals, rulers of the earth contrasted with the saints, who, though many, are but "one" bride (Isa 52:15; The one Bride is contrasted with the many wives whom Eastern kings had in violation of the marriage law (1Ki 11:1-3).

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

Threescore - A certain number for an uncertain. The sense seems to be this, there are many beautiful queens and concubines in the world, in the courts of princes, but none of them is to be compared with my spouse.

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

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SNG 6:81KI 11:1 DEU 17:17
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
SNG 6:82CH 11:21 2SA 3:2-5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
SNG 6:8PSA 45:9 1KI 2:19
SNG 6:8PSA 45:9 REV 21:9
SNG 6:82CH 11:21 1KI 11:3
SNG 6:82CH 11:21 JDG 8:30
SNG 6:82CH 11:21 2SA 5:13
SNG 6:8PSA 45:9 EPH 5:26-27

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