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Sgs 5:13 — His cheeks [are] as a bed of spices, [as] sweet flowers: his lips [like] lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

cheeks		Sgs 1:10; Isa 50:6
as a		Psa 4:6,7; Psa 27:4; Psa 89:15; Rev 21:23
sweet flowers		or, towers of perfumes. Sgs 3:6
his lips		Sgs 4:11; Psa 45:2; Isa 50:4; Luk 4:22
dropping		Sgs 5:5

Correlating Passages

cheeks

	Sgs 1:10	Thy cheeks are comely with rows [of jewels], thy neck with chains [of gold].
	Isa 50:6	I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

as a

	Psa 4:6	[There be] many that say, Who will shew us [any] good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
	Psa 4:7	Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time [that] their corn and their wine increased.
	Psa 27:4	One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
	Psa 89:15	Blessed [is] the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.
	Rev 21:23	And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb [is] the light thereof.

sweet flowers

Sgs 3:6

Who [is] this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

his lips

	Sgs 4:11	Thy lips, O [my] spouse, drop [as] the honeycomb: honey and milk [are] under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments [is] like the smell of Lebanon.
	Psa 45:2	Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
	Isa 50:4	The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to [him that is] weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
	Luk 4:22	And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, Is not this Joseph's son?

dropping

Sgs 5:5

I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped [with] myrrh, and my fingers [with] sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

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Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)

Scott, Thomas. "Song of Songs 5:13," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Sgs/5/13.html>.

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