Song of Songs 6:4

The beloved resumes his praise, calling the bride beautiful as the cities Tirzah and Jerusalem and as awe-inspiring as an army with banners. Her beauty is both lovely and majestic.

Cross-references · 20

• Song 6:10Who is she who looks out as the morning, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, and awesome as an army with banners?
• Ps 48:2Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.
• 1 Kgs 14:17Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed, and came to Tirzah. As she came to the threshold of the house, the child died.
• Lam 2:15All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
• Ps 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.
• Song 4:7You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
• Song 2:14My dove in the clefts of the rock, In the hiding places of the mountainside, Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
• Rev 21:2I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
• 1 Kgs 15:33In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha the son of Ahijah began to reign over all Israel in Tirzah for twenty-four years.
• Rev 19:14–16The armies which are in heaven followed him on white horses, clothed in white, pure, fine linen.
• 1 Kgs 15:21When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.
• 2 Cor 10:4for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but mighty before God to the throwing down of strongholds,
• Song 1:15Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves.
• Ps 144:4–8Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
• Num 24:5–9How goodly are your tents, Jacob, and your tents, Israel!
• Song 5:2I was asleep, but my heart was awake. It is the voice of my beloved who knocks: “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; for my head is filled with dew, and my hair with the dampness of the night.”
• Ezek 16:13–14Thus you were decked with gold and silver. Your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work. You ate fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered to royal estate.
• Eph 5:27that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.
• Zech 12:3It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
• Song 1:5I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar’s tents, like Solomon’s curtains.

Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Hebrew word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.