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Look! It is Solomon’s portable couch![a]
    Sixty mighty men surround it,[b]
        the mighty men of Israel.
All of them wield swords;[c]
    they are trained in warfare,[d]
each with his sword at his thigh
    to guard against terror[e] in the night.
King Solomon[f] made for himself a sedan chair
    from the wood of Lebanon.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 3:7 Literally “couch” or “portable sedan chair”
  2. Song of Solomon 3:7 Literally “her”
  3. Song of Solomon 3:8 Literally “holders of sword”
  4. Song of Solomon 3:8 Literally “learnt of war”
  5. Song of Solomon 3:8 Literally “because of the fear”
  6. Song of Solomon 3:9 Literally “The king, Solomon”

Look! It is Solomon’s carriage,
    escorted by sixty warriors,(A)
    the noblest of Israel,
all of them wearing the sword,
    all experienced in battle,
each with his sword at his side,
    prepared for the terrors of the night.(B)
King Solomon made for himself the carriage;
    he made it of wood from Lebanon.

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Behold, it is Solomon’s couch,
With sixty valiant men around it,
Of the valiant of Israel.
They all hold swords,
Being expert in war.
Every man has his sword on his thigh
Because of fear in the night.

Of the wood of Lebanon
Solomon the King
Made himself a [a]palanquin:

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 3:9 A portable enclosed chair