Song of Solomon 2:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 2:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Song of Solomon 6:3
I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 7:10
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
Psalms 48:14
For this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.
Psalms 63:1
A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
Song of Solomon 2:1
I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

Commentary

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

(vv. 14-17)

Here is, I. The encouraging invitation which Christ gives to the church, and every believing soul, to come into communion with him, Song 2:14. 1. His love is now his dove; David had called the church God’s turtle-dove (Ps. 74:19), and so she is here called; a dove for beauty, her wings covered with silver (Ps. 68:13), for innocence and inoffensiveness; a gracious spirit is a dove-like spirit, harm…

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

(vv. 16)

16. mine ... his--rather, “is for me ... for Him” (Ho 3:3), where, as here, there is the assurance of indissoluble union, in spite of temporary absence. So 2:17, entreating Him to return, shows that He has gone, perhaps through her want of guarding against the “little sins” (So 2:15). The order of the clauses is reversed in So 6:3, when she is riper in faith: there she rests more on her being His;…