Song of Solomon 5:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

Song of Solomon 5:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Song of Solomon 4:1
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Song of Solomon 1:15
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.
Hebrews 4:13
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Commentary

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

(vv. 9-16)

Here is, I. The question which the daughters of Jerusalem put to the spouse concerning her beloved, in answer to the charge she had given them, Song 5:9. Observe, 1. The respectful title they give to the spouse: O thou fairest among women! Our Lord Jesus makes his spouse truly amiable, not only in his eyes, but in the eyes of all the daughters of Jerusalem. The church is the most excellent society…

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

(vv. 12)

12. as the eyes of doves--rather, “as doves” (Psa 68:13); bathing in “the rivers”; so combining in their “silver” feathers the whiteness of milk with the sparkling brightness of the water trickling over them (Mt 3:16). The “milk” may allude to the white around the pupil of the eye. The “waters” refer to the eye as the fountain of tears of sympathy (Eze 16:5, 6; Lu 19:41). Vivacity, purity, and lov…