There are three score queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. Treasury of Scripture 1 Kings 11:1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians... 2 Chronicles 11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives... Psalm 45:14 She shall be brought to the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought to you. Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, see, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds...
Context Mutual Delight
4You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. 5Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me: your hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. 6Your teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one bears twins, and there is not one barren among them. 7As a piece of a pomegranate are your temples within your locks. 8There are three score queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. 9My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yes, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. 10Who is she that looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners? Parallel Verses American Standard Version
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number.
Douay-Rheims Bible
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.
Darby Bible Translation
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number:
King James Bible
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.
Young's Literal Translation
Sixty are queens, and eighty concubines, And virgins without number.
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