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Look! It is Solomon’s portable couch![a]
    Sixty mighty men surround it,[b]
        the mighty men of Israel.
All of them wield swords;[c]
    they are trained in warfare,[d]
each with his sword at his thigh
    to guard against terror[e] in the night.
King Solomon[f] made for himself a sedan chair
    from the wood of Lebanon.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 3:7 Literally “couch” or “portable sedan chair”
  2. Song of Solomon 3:7 Literally “her”
  3. Song of Solomon 3:8 Literally “holders of sword”
  4. Song of Solomon 3:8 Literally “learnt of war”
  5. Song of Solomon 3:8 Literally “because of the fear”
  6. Song of Solomon 3:9 Literally “The king, Solomon”