Song of Solomon 6:8 BSB

Song of Solomon 6:8

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

There are threescore queens - Though there be sixty queens, and eighty concubines, or secondary wives, and virgins innumerable, in my harem, yet thou, my dove, my undefiled, art אצת achath, One, the Only One, she in whom I delight beyond all.

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The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

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.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
שִׁשִּׁ֥ים	shi.Shim	[are] sixty	H8346 →
הֵ֙מָּה֙	he.mah	they	H1992 →
מְּלָכ֔וֹת	me.la.Khot	queens	H4436 →
וּשְׁמֹנִ֖ים	u.she.mo.Nim	and eighty	H8084 →
פִּֽילַגְשִׁ֑ים	pi.lag.Shim	concubines	H6370 →
וַעֲלָמ֖וֹת	va.'a.la.Mot	and young women	H5959 →
אֵ֥ין	'ein	there not	H369 →
מִסְפָּֽר׃	mis.Par	[is] a number	H4557 →

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1 Kings 11:1
King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
leads to
- Deuteronomy 17:17
  He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
2 Chronicles 11:21
Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 3:2–5
  And sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel;
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Kings 11:3
  He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.
- Judges 8:30
  Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.
- 2 Samuel 5:13
  After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.
Through
Psalms 45:9
The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir.
leads to
- 1 Kings 2:19
  So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, bowed to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne…
- Revelation 21:9
  Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
- Ephesians 5:26–27
  to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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About Song of Solomon