Song of Solomon 7:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

Song of Solomon 7:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 3:8
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Romans 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
Jeremiah 1:5
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Isaiah 46:3
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
Psalms 45:16
Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-9)

The title which Jesus Christ here gives to the church is new: O prince’s daughter! agreeing with Ps. 45:13; where she is called the king’s daughter. She is so in respect of her new birth, born from above, begotten of God, and his workmanship, bearing the image of the King of kings, and guided by his Spirit. She is so by marriage; Christ, by betrothing her to himself, though he found her mean and d…

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

(vv. 2)

2. navel--rather, “girdle-clasp,” called from the part of the person underneath. The “shoes” (So 7:1) prove that dress is throughout presupposed on all parts where it is usually worn. She is “a bride adorned for her husband”; the “uncomely parts,” being most adorned (1Co 12:23). The girdle-clasp was adorned with red rubies resembling the “round goblet” (crater or mixer) of spice-mixed wine (not “l…