Song of Songs 1:9

The beloved praises the bride, comparing her to a magnificent mare among Pharaoh's chariots. It is high praise of her striking beauty.

Cross-references · 12

• Song 2:10My beloved calls to me, “Arise, my darling. Come away with me, my beautiful one.
• Song 2:13The fig tree ripens its figs; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come away, my darling; come away with me, my beautiful one.”
• John 15:14–15You are My friends if you do what I command you.
• Song 2:2Like a lily among the thorns is my darling among the maidens.
• Song 1:15How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves.
• Song 5:2I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”
• Isa 31:1Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
• Song 4:7You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.
• Song 6:4You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.
• 2 Chr 1:14–17Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
• Song 4:1How beautiful you are, my darling—how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.
• 1 Kgs 10:28Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.

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