Songs 6:8 {7}
Good News Translation
Let the king have sixty queens, eighty concubines, young women without number!

New Revised Standard Version
There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.

Contemporary English Version
What if I could have sixty queens, eighty wives, and thousands of others!

New American Bible
Sixty are the queens, eighty the concubines, and young women without number—

Douay-Rheims Bible
There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.

1 Kings 11:1 And king Solomon loved many strange women, besides the daughter of Pharao, and women of Moab, and of Ammon, and of Edom, and of Sidon, and of the Hethites:

2 Chronicles 11:21 And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines: for he had married eighteen wives, and threescore concubines: and he begot eight and twenty sons, and threescore daughters.

Psalm 45:14 Clothed round about with varieties. After her shall virgins be brought to the king: her neighbours shall be brought to thee.

Revelation 7:9 After this, I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and in sight of the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.

Context
Together in the Garden
7Thy cheeks are as the bark of a pomegranate, beside what is hidden within thee. 8There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and young maidens without number.9One is my dove, my perfect one is but one, she is the only one of her mother, the chosen of her that bore her. The daughters saw her, and declared her most blessed: the queens and concubines, and they praised her.…
Cross References
1 Kings 11:3
And he had seven hundred wives as queens, and three hundred concubines: and the women turned away his heart.

Songs 1:3
Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the rightous love thee.

Songs 6:7
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