Song of Songs 2:9

Her beloved, swift as a gazelle, peers eagerly through the windows and lattice. It pictures his nearness and longing to see her.

Cross-references · 16

• Song 8:14Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!
• Song 2:17Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.
• Col 2:17which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.
• John 5:46For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
• Heb 10:1For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
• 1 Cor 13:12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
• Heb 10:19–20Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,
• 1 Pet 1:10–12Concerning this salvation, the prophets sought and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you,
• John 5:39“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
• 2 Cor 3:13–18and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.
• Eph 2:14–15For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,
• John 12:41Isaiah said these things when he saw his glory, and spoke of him.
• Heb 9:8–9The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
• Rev 19:10I fell down before his feet to worship him. He said to me, “Look! Don’t do it! I am a fellow bondservant with you and with your brothers who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.”
• 2 Sam 2:18The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.
• Luke 24:35They related the things that happened along the way, and how he was recognized by them in the breaking of the bread.

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