Song of Solomon 6:2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies.

English Standard Version
My beloved has gone down to his garden to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies.

New American Standard Bible
"My beloved has gone down to his garden, To the beds of balsam, To pasture his flock in the gardens And gather lilies.

King James Bible
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My love has gone down to his garden, to beds of spice, to feed in the gardens and gather lilies.

International Standard Version
My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to graze his flock in the gardens and gather lilies.

American Standard Version
My beloved is gone down to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the bed of aromatical spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Darby Bible Translation
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, To feed in the gardens and to gather lilies.

Young's Literal Translation
My beloved went down to his garden, To the beds of the spice, To delight himself in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Cross References

Song of Solomon 1:7
Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where you feed, where you make your flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turns aside by the flocks of your companions?

Song of Solomon 2:1
I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

Song of Solomon 2:16
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feeds among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 4:5
Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.

Song of Solomon 4:16
Awake, O north wind; and come, you south; blow on my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

Song of Solomon 5:1
I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yes, drink abundantly, O beloved.

Song of Solomon 5:13
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

6:2,3 Christ's church is a garden, enclosed, and separated from the world; he takes care of it, delights in it, and visits it. Those who would find Christ, must attend him in his ordinances, the word, sacraments, and prayer. When Christ comes to his church, it is to entertain his friends. And to take believers to himself: he picks the lilies one by one; and at the great day he will send forth his angels to gather all his lilies, that he may be for ever admired in them. The death of a believer is not more than the owner of a garden plucking a favourite flower; and He will preserve it from withering, yea, cause it to flourish for ever, with increasing beauty. If our own hearts can witness for us that we are Christ's, question not his being ours, for the covenant never breaks on his side. It is the comfort of the church, that he feeds among the lilies, that he takes delight in his people.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

2. gone down—Jerusalem was on a hill (answering to its moral elevation), and the gardens were at a little distance in the valleys below.

beds of spices—(balsam) which He Himself calls the "mountain of myrrh," &c. (So 4:6), and again (So 8:14), the resting-place of His body amidst spices, and of His soul in paradise, and now in heaven, where He stands as High Priest for ever. Nowhere else in the Song is there mention of mountains of spices.

feed in … gardens—that is, in the churches, though He may have withdrawn for a time from the individual believer: she implies an invitation to the daughters of Jerusalem to enter His spiritual Church, and become lilies, made white by His blood. He is gathering some lilies now to plant on earth, others to transplant into heaven (So 5:1; Ge 5:24; Mr 4:28, 29; Ac 7:60).