Song of Solomon 6:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 6:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Song of Solomon 2:16
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Song of Solomon 7:10
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
Hebrews 8:10
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Revelation 21:2-4
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. …

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-3)

Here is, I. The enquiry which the daughters of Jerusalem made concerning Christ, Song 6:1. They still continue their high thoughts of the church, and call her, as before, the fairest among women; for true sanctity is true beauty. And now they raise their thoughts higher concerning Christ: Whither has thy beloved gone, that we may seek him with thee? This would be but an indecent, unacceptable, com…

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

(vv. 3)

3. In speaking of Jesus Christ to others, she regains her own assurance. Literally, “I am for my beloved ... for me.” Reverse order from So 2:16. She now, after the season of darkness, grounds her convictions on His love towards her, more than on hers towards Him (De 33:3). There, it was the young believer concluding that she was His, from the sensible assurance that He was hers.