Songs 1:9
Good News Translation
You, my love, excite men as a mare excites the stallions of Pharaoh's chariots.

New Revised Standard Version
I compare you, my love, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

Contemporary English Version
You move as gracefully as the pony that leads the chariot of the king.

New American Bible
To a mare among Pharaoh’s chariotry I compare you, my friend:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove's, thy neck as jewels.

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Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove's, thy neck as jewels.

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Songs 2:2,10,13 As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. . . .

Songs 4:1,7 How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes are doves' eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of goats, which come up from mount Galaad. . . .

Songs 5:2 I sleep, and my heart watcheth: the voice of my beloved knocking: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is full of dew, and my locks of the drops of the nights.

Songs 6:4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, sweet and comely as Jerusalem terrible as an army set in array.

John 15:14,15 You are my friends, if you do the things that I command you. . . .

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1 Kings 10:28 And horses were brought for Solomon out of Egypt, and Coa: for the king's merchants bought them out of Coa, and brought them at a set price.

2 Chronicles 1:14-17 And he gathered to himself chariots and horsemen, and he had a thousand four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen: and he placed them in the cities of the chariots, and with the king in Jerusalem. . . .

Isaiah 31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, trusting in horses, and putting their confidence in chariots, because they are many: and in horsemen, because they are very strong: and have not trusted in the Holy One of Israel, and have not sought after the Lord.

Context
The Bride Confesses Her Love
8To my company of horsemen, in Pharao's chariots, have I likened thee, O my love. 9Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove's, thy neck as jewels.10We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 1:16
And there were horses brought him from Egypt, and from Coa by the king's merchants, who went, and bought at a price,

2 Chronicles 1:17
A chariot of four horses for six hundred pieces of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: in like manner market was made in all the kingdoms of the Hethites, and of the kings of Syria.

Songs 1:15
Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.

Songs 2:10
Behold my beloved speaketh to me: Arise, make haste, my love, my dove, my beautiful one, and come.

Songs 1:8
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