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Good News Translation
Your neck is like the tower of David, round and smooth, with a necklace like a thousand shields hung around it.

New Revised Standard Version
Your neck is like the tower of David, built in courses; on it hang a thousand bucklers, all of them shields of warriors.

Contemporary English Version
Your neck is more graceful than the tower of David, decorated with thousands of warriors' shields.

New American Bible
Like a tower of David, your neck, built in courses, A thousand shields hanging upon it, all the armor of warriors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks: a thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of valiant men.

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Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks: a thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of valiant men.

neck

Songs 1:10 We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.

Songs 7:4 Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy eyes like the fishpools in Hesebon, which are in the gate of the daughter of the multitude. Thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, that looketh toward Damascus.

2 Samuel 22:51 Giving great salvation to his king, and shewing mercy to David his anointed, and to his seed for ever.

Ephesians 4:15,16 But doing the truth in charity, we may in all things grow up in him who is the head, even Christ: . . .

Colossians 2:19 And not holding the head, from which the whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, groweth into the increase of God.

1 Peter 1:5 Who, by the power of God, are kept by faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.

an armoury

Nehemiah 3:19 And next to him Aser the son of Josue, lord of Maspha, built another measure, over against the going up of the strong corner.

a thousand

2 Chronicles 9:15,16 And king Solomon made two hundred golden spears, of the sum of six hundred pieces of gold, which went to every spear: . . .

2 Chronicles 12:9-11 So Sesac king of Egypt departed from Jerusalem, taking away the treasures of the king's house, and he took all with him, and the golden shields that Solomon had made, . . .

Context
Solomon Admires His Bride
…3Thy lips are as a scarlet lace: and thy speech sweet. Thy cheeks are as a piece of a pomegranate, besides that which lieth hid within. 4Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks: a thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of valiant men.5Thy two breasts like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:21
Ye mountains of Gelboe, let neither dew, nor rain come upon you, neither be they fields of firstfruits: for there was cast away the shield of the valiant, the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oil.

Psalm 144:12
Whose sons are as new plants in their youth: Their daughters decked out, adorned round about after the similitude of a temple:

Songs 7:4
Thy neck as a tower of ivory. Thy eyes like the fishpools in Hesebon, which are in the gate of the daughter of the multitude. Thy nose is as the tower of Libanus, that looketh toward Damascus.

Ezekiel 27:10
The Persians, and Lydians, and the Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army: they hung up the buckler and the helmet in thee for thy ornament.

Ezekiel 27:11
The men of Arad were with thy army upon thy walls round about: the Pygmeans also that were in thy towers, hung up their quivers on thy walls round about: they perfected thy beauty.

Songs 4:3
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