Song of Solomon 1:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.

Song of Solomon 1:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Song of Solomon 2:3
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Psalms 45:2
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Zechariah 9:17
For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
Psalms 110:3
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
Revelation 5:11-13
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-17)

Here the conference is carried on between Christ and his spouse, and endearments are mutually exchanged. I. Believers take a great complacency in Christ, and in communion with him. To you that believe he is precious, above any thing in this world, 1 Pet. 2:7. Observe, 1. The humble reverence believers have for Christ as their Sovereign, Song 1:12. He is a King in respect both of dignity and domini…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. Reply of the Bride. She presumes to call Him beloved, because He called her so first. Thou callest me “fair”; if I am so, it is not in myself; it is all from Thee (Psa 90:17); but Thou art fair in Thyself (Psa 45:2). pleasant--(Pr 3:17) towards Thy friends (2Sa 1:26). bed ... green--the couch of green grass on which the King and His bride sit to “rest at noon.” Thus her prayer in So 1:7 is her…