Your hair is beautiful upon your cheeks and falls along your neck like jewels.

Your neck is like the tower of David, round and smooth, with a necklace like a thousand shields hung around it.

His hands are well-formed, and he wears rings set with gems. His body is like smooth ivory, with sapphires set in it.

He also had a large throne made. Part of it was covered with ivory and the rest of it was covered with the finest gold.

He had a fleet of ocean-going ships sailing with Hiram's fleet. Every three years his fleet would return, bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and monkeys.

Everything else that King Ahab did, including an account of his palace decorated with ivory and of all the cities he built, is recorded in The History of the Kings of Israel.

The perfume of myrrh and aloes is on your clothes; musicians entertain you in palaces decorated with ivory.

May our sons in their youth be like plants that grow up strong. May our daughters be like stately columns which adorn the corners of a palace.

How beautiful you are, my love! How your eyes shine with love behind your veil. Your hair dances like a flock of goats bounding down the hills of Gilead.

The look in your eyes, my sweetheart and bride, and the necklace you are wearing have stolen my heart.

Turn your eyes away from me; they are holding me captive. Your hair dances like a flock of goats bounding down the hills of Gilead.

and ask the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, to give you the Spirit, who will make you wise and reveal God to you, so that you will know him.

I ask that your minds may be opened to see his light, so that you will know what is the hope to which he has called you, how rich are the wonderful blessings he promises his people,

so that you, together with all God's people, may have the power to understand how broad and long, how high and deep, is Christ's love.

Yes, may you come to know his love---although it can never be fully known---and so be completely filled with the very nature of God.

So the people of Israel captured all the Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all the surrounding towns, and settled in them.

Do not be afraid---you will not be disgraced again; you will not be humiliated. You will forget your unfaithfulness as a young wife, and your desperate loneliness as a widow.

I pray that your love will keep on growing more and more, together with true knowledge and perfect judgment,

so that you will be able to choose what is best. Then you will be free from all impurity and blame on the Day of Christ.

Solid food, on the other hand, is for adults, who through practice are able to distinguish between good and evil.

Come with me from the Lebanon Mountains, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Come down from the top of Mount Amana, from Mount Senir and Mount Hermon, where the lions and leopards live.

His thighs are columns of alabaster set in sockets of gold. He is majestic, like the Lebanon Mountains with their towering cedars.

The Hall of the Forest of Lebanon was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It had three rows of cedar pillars, 15 in each row, with cedar beams resting on them. The ceiling was of cedar, extending over storerooms, which were supported by the pillars.

the cities where his supplies were kept, the cities for his horses and chariots, and everything else he wanted to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and elsewhere in his kingdom.

the city of Baalath, all the cities where he stored supplies, and the cities where his horses and chariots were stationed. He carried out all his plans for building in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and throughout the territory that he ruled over.

But Abram answered, "Sovereign LORD, what good will your reward do me, since I have no children? My only heir is Eliezer of Damascus.

Then he set up military camps in their territory, and they became his subjects and paid taxes to him. The LORD made David victorious everywhere.