Song of Solomon 5:14 His arms are rods of gold set with topaz. His body is like polished ivory decorated with lapis lazuli.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
His arms are rods of gold set with topaz. His body is like polished ivory decorated with lapis lazuli.

English Standard Version
His arms are rods of gold, set with jewels. His body is polished ivory, bedecked with sapphires.

New American Standard Bible
"His hands are rods of gold Set with beryl; His abdomen is carved ivory Inlaid with sapphires.

King James Bible
His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
His arms are rods of gold set with topaz. His body is an ivory panel covered with sapphires.

International Standard Version
His hands are rods of gold, set with beryl. His stomach is carved ivory, inlaid with sapphires.

American Standard Version
His hands are as rings of gold set with beryl: His body is as ivory work overlaid with'sapphires.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His hands are turned and as of gold, full of hyacinths. His belly as of ivory, set with sapphires.

Darby Bible Translation
His hands gold rings, set with the chrysolite; His belly is bright ivory, overlaid with sapphires;

Young's Literal Translation
His hands rings of gold, set with beryl, His heart bright ivory, covered with sapphires,

Cross References

Exodus 24:10
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

Exodus 28:18
And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

Exodus 28:20
And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their settings.

Exodus 39:13
And the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were enclosed in ouches of gold in their settings.

Job 28:16
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Isaiah 54:11
O you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with fair colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Ezekiel 1:16
The appearance of the wheels and their work was like to the color of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

Daniel 10:6
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in color to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:9-16 Even those who have little acquaintance with Christ, cannot but see amiable beauty in others who bear his image. There are hopes of those who begin to inquire concerning Christ and his perfections. Christians, who are well acquainted with Christ themselves, should do all they can to make others know something of him. Divine glory makes him truly lovely in the eyes of all who are enlightened to discern spiritual things. He is white in the spotless innocence of his life, ruddy in the bleeding sufferings he went through at his death. This description of the person of the Beloved, would form, in the figurative language of those times, a portrait of beauty of person and of grace of manners; but the aptness of some of the allusions may not appear to us. He shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all that believe. May his love constrain us to live to his glory.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

14. rings set with … beryl—Hebrew, Tarshish, so called from the city. The ancient chrysolite, gold in color (Septuagint), our topaz, one of the stones on the high priest's breastplate, also in the foundation of New Jerusalem (Re 21:19, 20; also Da 10:6). "Are as," is plainly to be supplied, see in So 5:13 a similiar ellipsis; not as Moody Stuart: "have gold rings." The hands bent in are compared to beautiful rings, in which beryl is set, as the nails are in the fingers. Burrowes explains the rings as cylinders used as signets, such as are found in Nineveh, and which resemble fingers. A ring is the token of sonship (Lu 15:22). A slave was not allowed to wear a gold ring. He imparts His sonship and freedom to us (Ga 4:7); also of authority (Ge 41:42; compare Joh 6:27). He seals us in the name of God with His signet (Re 7:2-4), compare below, So 8:6, where she desires to be herself a signet-ring on His arms; so "graven on the palms," &c., that is, on the signet-ring in His hand (Isa 49:16; contrast Hag 2:23, with Jer 22:24).

belly—Burrowes and Moody Stuart translate, "body." Newton, as it is elsewhere, "bowels"; namely, His compassion (Ps 22:14; Isa 63:15; Jer 31:20; Ho 11:8).

bright—literally, "elaborately wrought so as to shine," so His "prepared" body (Heb 10:5); the "ivory palace" of the king (Ps 45:8); spotless, pure, so the bride's "neck is as to tower of ivory" (So 7:4).

sapphires—spangling in the girdle around Him (Da 10:5). "To the pure all things are pure." As in statuary to the artist the partly undraped figure is suggestive only of beauty, free from indelicacy, so to the saint the personal excellencies of Jesus Christ, typified under the ideal of the noblest human form. As, however, the bride and bridegroom are in public, the usual robes on the person, richly ornamented, are presupposed (Isa 11:5). Sapphires indicate His heavenly nature (so Joh 3:13, "is in heaven"), even in His humiliation, overlaying or cast "over" His ivory human body (Ex 24:10). Sky-blue in color, the height and depth of the love of Jesus Christ (Eph 3:18).