Song Of Songs Chapter 6 verse 8 Holy Bible
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number.
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There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young girls without number.
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There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number:
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There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
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There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, And virgins without number.
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Sixty are queens, and eighty concubines, And virgins without number.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 8, 9. - There are three score queens, and four score concubines, and virgins without number. My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. The account given us of Solomon's harem in 1 Kings 11:3 represents the number as much larger. Is not that because the time referred to in the poem was early in the reign? The words are an echo of what we read in Proverbs 31:28 and Genesis 30:13. Perhaps the general meaning is merely to celebrate the surpassing beauty of the new bride. But there certainly is a special stress laid on her purity and innocence. There is no necessity to seek for any exact interpretation of the queens and concubines. They represent female beauty in its variety. The true Church is in closer relation to the Bridegroom than all the rest of the world. Even in the heathen and unconverted world there is a revelation of the Word, or, as the ancient Fathers of the Church said, a Λόγος σπερματὶκος. He was then as light, though the darkness comprehended him not. The perfection of the true bride of the Lamb will be acknowledged even by those who are not professedly Christian.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) There are threescore queens.--Presumably a description of Solomon's harem (from comp. with Song of Solomon 8:11-12), though the numbers are far more sober than in 1Kings 11:3. Probably the latter marks a later form of the traditions of the grand scale on which everything at the court of the monarch was conducted, and this, though a poetic, is a truer version of the story of his loves. The conjunction of alamoth with concubines, pilageshim (comp. ???????, pellex), decides for translating it puell? rather than virgines.
