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Look, it is Solomon being carried in his litter,
    and escorted by sixty valiant guards,
    the bravest of the mighty warriors of Israel,
all of them expert swordsmen
    and experienced in warfare,
each with his sword ready at his side
    to guard against the terrors by night.[a]
King Solomon had made himself a carriage
    from the wood of Lebanon.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 3:8 The terrors by night: see Ps 91:5.