Song of Solomon 2:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

Song of Solomon 2:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Song of Solomon 5:8
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
2 Samuel 6:19
And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece of flesh, and a flagon of wine. So all the people departed every one to his house.
Hosea 3:1
Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
Song of Solomon 7:8
I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
Psalms 42:1-2
To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 3-7)

Here, I. The spouse commends her beloved and prefers him before all others: As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, which perhaps does not grow so high, nor spread so wide, as some other trees, yet is useful and serviceable to man, yielding pleasant and profitable fruit, while the other trees are of little use, no, not the cedars themselves, till they are cut down, so is my beloved among th…

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

(vv. 5)

5. flagons--Maurer prefers translating, “dried raisin cakes”; from the Hebrew root “fire,” namely, dried by heat. But the “house of wine” (So 2:4, Margin) favors “flagons”; the “new wine” of the kingdom, the Spirit of Jesus Christ. apples--from the tree (So 2:3), so sweet to her, the promises of God. sick of love--the highest degree of sensible enjoyment that can be attained here. It may be at an…