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Song of Solomon 8:4

8:3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. that: Heb. why should ye stir up, or, why, etc

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I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

8:5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

What does Song of Solomon 8:4 mean?

Song of Solomon 8:4 is a verse in the book of Song of Solomon, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include שָׁבַע (shâbaʻ), בַּת (bath), יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם (Yᵉrûwshâlaim). It connects to 5 cross-referenced passages elsewhere in Scripture.

Hebrew interlinear

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I
chargeשָׁבַעshâbaʻ/shaw-bah'/H7650to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)
you,
O
daughtersבַּתbath/bath/H1323a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
of
Jerusalem,יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִםYᵉrûwshâlaim/yer-oo-shaw-lah'-im/H3389Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
that
ye
stir
not
up,עוּרʻûwr/oor/H5782to wake (literally or figuratively)
nor
awakeעוּרʻûwr/oor/H5782to wake (literally or figuratively)
my
love,אַהֲבָהʼahăbâh/a-hab-aw/H160{affection (in a good or a bad sense)}
until
he
please.חָפֵץchâphêts/khaw-fates'/H2654properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
that:
Heb.
why
should
ye
stir
up,
or,
why,
etc

Commentary on Song of Solomon 8:4

HENRY_FULL · Song of Solomon 8:4
sincerely endeavour to do his commandments ought to keep up a good hope of the salvation; and that hope will both engage and enlarge the heart in doing the commandments. The more lively the hope is the more lively the obedience will be. 167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly. 168 I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee. David's conscience here witnesses for him, I. That his practices were good. 1. He loved God's testimonies, he loved them exceedingly. Our love to the word of God must be a superlative love (we must love it better than the wealth and pleasure of this world), and it must be a victorious love, such as will subdue and mortify our lusts and extirpate carnal affections. 2. He kept them, his soul kept them. Bodily exercise profits little in religion; we must make heart-work of it or we make nothing of it. The soul must be sanctified and renewed, and delivered into the mould of the word; the soul must be employed in glorifying God, for he will be worshipped in the spirit. We must keep both the precepts and the testimonies, the commands of God by our obe

Cross-references

Related passages from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Job 34:21

For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

Proverbs 5:21

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

Jeremiah 23:24

Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

Hebrews 4:13

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Revelation 2:23

And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.

Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Song of Solomon 8:4.

1 Chronicles 3:5

And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel: Shimea: or, Shammua.Sam.5.14. Bathshua: or, Bathsheba 2Sam.11.13. Ammiel: or, Eliam.Sam.11.3.

1 Kings 10:9

Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the LORD loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.

2 Chronicles 27:1

Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2 Chronicles 9:8

Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

2 Kings 23:36

Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zebudah, the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

2 Kings 24:18

Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

2 Kings 24:8

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

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What does Song of Solomon 8:4 say?

Song of Solomon 8:4 (King James Version) reads: "I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. that: Heb. why should ye stir up, or, why, etc"

Is Song of Solomon 8:4 in the Old or New Testament?

Song of Solomon 8:4 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Song of Solomon.

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