Song of Solomon 7:4 “Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools…”

Song of Solomon 7:4

Your neck is like a tower made of ivory; your eyes are like the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim; your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, facing toward Damascus.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thy 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.

World English Bible

Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.

American Standard Version

Thy neck is like the tower of ivory; Thine eyes as the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon Which looketh toward Damascus.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thy necke is like a towre of yuorie: thine eyes are like the fishe pooles in Heshbon by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the towre of Lebanon, that looketh toward Damascus.

Darby Translation

Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; Thine eyes, [like] the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose like the tower of Lebanon, Which looketh toward Damascus;

Young's Literal Translation

Thy neck as a tower of the ivory, Thine eyes pools in Heshbon, near the gate of Bath-Rabbim, Thy face as a tower of Lebanon looking to Damascus,

Bible in Basic English

Your neck is as a tower of ivory; your eyes like the waters in Heshbon, by the doorway of Bath-rabbim; your nose is as the tower on Lebanon looking over Damascus:

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Cross references

“neck”

Song of Solomon 4:4 Song of Solomon 1:10

Song of Solomon 4:4 · BSB

Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors.

Song of Solomon 1:10 · BSB

Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments, your neck with strings of jewels.

“ivory”

Psalm 144:12 1 Kings 10:18 1 Kings 10:22 1 Kings 22:39 Psalm 45:8 Song of Solomon 5:14

Psalm 144:12 · BSB

Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

1 Kings 10:18 · BSB

Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

1 Kings 10:22 · BSB

For the king had the ships of Tarshish at sea with Hiram’s fleet, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

1 Kings 22:39 · BSB

As for the rest of the acts of Ahab, along with all his accomplishments and the ivory palace and all the cities he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

Psalm 45:8 · BSB

All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad.

Song of Solomon 5:14 · BSB

His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is polished ivory bedecked with sapphires.

“thine eyes”

Song of Solomon 4:1 Song of Solomon 6:5 Song of Solomon 4:9 Ephesians 1:17 Ephesians 1:18 Ephesians 3:18

Song of Solomon 4:1 · BSB

How beautiful you are, my darling— how very beautiful! Your eyes are like doves behind your veil. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Mount Gilead.

Song of Solomon 6:5 · BSB

Turn your eyes away from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead.

Song of Solomon 4:9 · BSB

You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.

Ephesians 1:17 · BSB

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.

Ephesians 1:18 · BSB

I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints,

Ephesians 3:18 · BSB

will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth

“Heshbon”

Isaiah 54:4 Numbers 21:25

Isaiah 54:4 · BSB

Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.

Numbers 21:25 · BSB

Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.

“thy nose”

Hebrews 5:14 Philippians 1:9 Philippians 1:10

Hebrews 5:14 · BSB

But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil.

Philippians 1:9 · BSB

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,

Philippians 1:10 · BSB

so that you may be able to test and prove what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,

“the tower”

1 Kings 7:2 1 Kings 9:19 2 Chronicles 8:6 Song of Solomon 4:8 Song of Solomon 5:15

1 Kings 7:2 · BSB

He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.

1 Kings 9:19 · BSB

as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.

2 Chronicles 8:6 · BSB

as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, and all the cities for his chariots and horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.

Song of Solomon 4:8 · BSB

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon! Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summits of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.

Song of Solomon 5:15 · BSB

His legs are pillars of marble set on bases of pure gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.

“Damascus”

Genesis 15:2 2 Samuel 8:6

Genesis 15:2 · BSB

But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”

2 Samuel 8:6 · BSB

Then he placed garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Arameans became subject to David and brought him tribute. So the LORD made David victorious wherever he went.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

5Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel, the hair of your head like purple threads; the king is captured in your tresses.

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