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Song of Songs 7:4

Your neck is like an ivory tower, Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon By the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon Which looks toward Damascus.
Song of Songs 7:4 · New King James Version
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  • WEB Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
  • KJV Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
  • BSB Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.
  • NASB “Your neck is like a tower of ivory, Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, Which looks toward Damascus.
  • NLT Your neck is as beautiful as an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the sparkling pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is as fine as the tower of Lebanon overlooking Damascus.

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Quick answer

Her neck, eyes, and nose are praised with stately images ivory, the clear pools of Heshbon, and a watchtower conveying dignity and grace. Her beauty is noble and commanding.

Overview

The landmarks named lend the bride an air of stateliness and serene depth; her eyes are clear pools, her bearing tower-like. The imagery prizes dignity alongside loveliness. Such honoring description reflects the esteem proper to married love and, more broadly, the worth God assigns to those he has made and redeemed.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Song 4:4Your neck is like David’s tower built for an armory, whereon a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.
  • Song 4:8–9Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
  • Ps 144:12Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
  • 1 Kgs 9:19all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
  • 1 Kgs 10:22For the king had a fleet of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet. Once every three years the fleet of Tarshish came, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.
  • 1 Kgs 10:18Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the finest gold.
  • 2 Sam 8:6Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.
  • 2 Chr 8:6and Baalath, and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and all that Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.
  • Song 4:1Behold, you are beautiful, my love. Behold, you are beautiful. Your eyes are doves behind your veil. Your hair is as a flock of goats, that descend from Mount Gilead.
  • Song 6:5Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.
  • Num 21:25–26Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
  • Song 5:14–15His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
  • Isa 54:4“Don’t be afraid; for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded; for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth; and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more.
  • Eph 1:17–18that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;
  • Eph 3:18–19may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and height and depth,
  • Phil 1:9–10This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
  • Heb 5:14But solid food is for those who are full grown, who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.
  • Gen 15:2Abram said, “Lord Yahweh, what will you give me, since I go childless, and he who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?”
  • Ps 45:8All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
  • Song 1:10Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
  • 1 Kgs 7:2For he built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. Its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
  • 1 Kgs 22:39Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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