Song of Solomon 1:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

Song of Solomon 1:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
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!
John 12:3
Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Exodus 30:23-28
Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, …
Psalms 45:7-8
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. …

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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. 3)

3. Rather, “As regards the savor of thy ointments, it is good” [Maurer]. In So 4:10, 11, the Bridegroom reciprocates the praise of the bride in the same terms. thy name--Christ’s character and office as the “Anointed” (Is 9:6; 61:1), as “the savor of ointments” are the graces that surround His person (Psa 45:7, 8). Ec 7:1, in its fullest sense, applies to Him. The holy anointing oil of the high pr…