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Royal Wedding Procession

6 What is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke,

perfumed with myrrh and frankincense
- from all the fragrant powders of the merchant?
- 7 Look! It is Solomon’s portable couch ![fn] Sixty mighty men surround it ,[fn]
  - the mighty men of Israel.
- 8 All of them wield swords ;[fn] they are trained in warfare ,[fn]
each with his sword at his thigh
- to guard against terror[fn] in the night.
- 9 King Solomon[fn] made for himself a sedan chair from the wood of Lebanon.
- 10 He made its column of silver, its back[fn] of gold, its seat of purple; its interior is inlaid with leather[fn] by the maidens of Jerusalem .[fn]
- 11 Come out and look, O maidens of Zion ,[fn] at King Solomon ,[fn] at the crown with which his mother crowned him
on the day of his wedding,
- on the day of the joy of his heart!

3:? Literally “couch” or “portable sedan chair”

3:? Literally “her”

3:? Literally “holders of sword”

3:? Literally “learnt of war”

3:? Literally “because of the fear”

3:? Literally “The king, Solomon”

3:? Or “its support,” “its base,” “its headrest,” “its litter,” “its cover”

3:? Or “love.” The Hebrew term here translated “leather” is spelled the same as the term for “love.” Most likely this is an example of a word play that puns on the intentional ambiguity: “Its interior was inlaid with leather//love by the maidens of Jerusalem”

3:? Literally “by the daughters of Jerusalem”

3:? Literally “O daughters of Zion”

3:? Literally “the king, Solomon”

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