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Look! They are carrying King Solomon on a throne![a]
    60 soldiers are travelling with it.[b]
    They are Israel's bravest soldiers.
All of them have swords.
    They all know how to fight well.
Their swords are ready for them to use.
    They are ready for any danger that comes in the night.
King Solomon made the throne for himself.
    He used wood from Lebanon to make it.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:7 People could carry someone on this kind of throne. See verse 9.
  2. 3:7 Verses 7 and 9 may mean that King Solomon is the man in the story. But, if not, maybe the man and woman are singing a song at their marriage. The song that they sing is about Solomon's marriage.
  3. 3:9 Lebanon is a country where there are mountains and many strong trees.