Song of Solomon 1:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

Song of Solomon 1:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Song of Solomon 4:10
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
Song of Solomon 1:4
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
Isaiah 55:1-2
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. …
Psalms 63:3-5
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee. …
Psalms 36:7
How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.

Commentary

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

(vv. 2-6)

The spouse, in this dramatic poem, is here first introduced addressing herself to the bridegroom and then to the daughters of Jerusalem. I. To the bridegroom, not giving him any name or title, but beginning abruptly: Let him kiss me; like Mary Magdalen to the supposed gardener (John 20:15), If thou have borne him hence, meaning Christ, but not naming him. The heart has been before taken up with th…

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

(vv. 2)

2. him--abruptly. She names him not, as is natural to one whose heart is full of some much desired friend: so Mary Magdalene at the sepulchre (Joh 20:15), as if everyone must know whom she means, the one chief object of her desire (Psa 73:25; Mt 13:44-46; Php 3:7,8). kiss--the token of peace from the Prince of Peace (Lu 15:20); “our Peace” (Psa 85:10; Col 1:21; Ep 2:14). of his mouth--marking the…