- 1How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
- 2Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
- 3Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
- 4Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
- 5Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
- 6How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
- 7This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
- 8I 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;
- 9And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
- 10 I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.
- 11Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
- 12Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
- 13The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
KING JAMES VERSION
SONG OF SOLOMON 7
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CHAPTER VISUAL
Song of Solomon 7 — The Beloved’s Beauty and the Dance of Delight.
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The composition centers the beloved’s beauty and the dance of delight as the chapter’s defining visual, using a unified, historically grounded scene while avoiding written text and any bodily depiction of God.
Scripture basis: Song of Solomon 7:1–13King James Version · Standardized 1769 text with Strong’s numbering · Public domain outside the United Kingdom
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Archaeological Evidence
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCESettlement
Iron Age through Ottoman periods, with earlier traces but no securely established Late Bronze city
Tall Hisban and the Identification of Heshbon
Tall Hisban preserves a long settlement sequence and the ancient Heshbon name, yet its excavated chronology complicates identification with the Amorite capital of Numbers and Deuteronomy.
Numbers 21:25–30 · Deuteronomy 2:24–37 · Song of Solomon 7:4
ARCHAEOLOGY EVIDENCEManuscript
30 BC–AD 68
4QCanticlesa (4Q106): Song of Songs at Qumran
Fragments of Song of Songs from Cave 4 preserve portions of chapters 3, 4, 6, and 7, materially attesting the book's circulation near the turn of the era.
Song of Solomon 3:3–11 · Song of Solomon 4:1–7 · Song of Solomon 6:11–13