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13 You were adorned with gold and silver, while your clothing was of fine linen, rich fabric,[a] and embroidered cloth. You had choice flour and honey and oil for food. You grew exceedingly beautiful, fit to be a queen.(A)

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  1. 16.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
    God shines forth.(A)

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21 [a]Solomon was sovereign over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.[b](A)]]

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  1. 4.21 5.1 in Heb
  2. 4.20–21 Gk lacks 4.20–21

13 He set him atop the heights of the land
    and fed him with[a] produce of the field;
he nursed him with honey from the crags,
    with oil from flinty rock,(A)
14 curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
    with fat of lambs and rams,
Bashan bulls and goats,
    together with the choicest wheat—
    you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.(B)

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  1. 32.13 Sam Gk Syr Tg: MT he ate

beautiful in elevation,
    is the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
    the city of the great King.(A)

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13     with all kinds of wealth.

The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;[a](A)
14     in many-colored robes she is led to the king;
    behind her the virgins, her companions, follow.(B)

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  1. 45.13 Or people. All glorious is the princess within, gold embroidery is her clothing

For their mother has prostituted herself;
    she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will go after my lovers;
    they give me my bread and my water,
    my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”(A)

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19 Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with choice flour and oil and honey—you set it before them as a pleasing odor, and so it was, says the Lord God.

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14 Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of my splendor that I had bestowed on you, says the Lord God.

15 But you trusted in your beauty and prostituted yourself because of your fame and lavished your prostitutions on any passer-by.[a](A)

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  1. 16.15 Heb adds Let it be his

15 All who pass along the way
    clap their hands at you;
they hiss and wag their heads
    at daughter Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
    the perfection of beauty,
    the joy of all the earth?”(A)

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20 Lift up your eyes and see
    those who come from the north.
Where is the flock that was given you,
    your beautiful flock?(A)

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11 Our holy and beautiful house,
    where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned by fire,
    and all our pleasant places have become ruins.(A)

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14 He grants peace[a] within your borders;
    he fills you with the finest of wheat.(A)

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  1. 147.14 Or prosperity

16 I would feed you[a] with the finest of the wheat,
    and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”(A)

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  1. 81.16 Cn: Heb he would feed him

11 This was their reply to us: ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are rebuilding the house that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.(A)

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20 Jerusalem has had mighty kings who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.(A)

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David’s Officers

15 So David reigned over all Israel, and David administered justice and equity to all his people.

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12 But when you saw that King Nahash of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ though the Lord your God was your king.(A)

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10 Samuel took a vial of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him; he said, “The Lord has anointed you ruler over his people Israel. You shall reign over the people of the Lord, and you will save them from the hand of their enemies all around. Now this shall be the sign to you that the Lord has anointed you ruler[a] over his heritage:(A)

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  1. 10.1 Gk: Heb lacks over his people Israel. You shall . . . anointed you ruler

a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey,

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I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you.(A)

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