--- title: "Song of Solomon 7 - Study King James Bible with ellicotts commentary for english readers" description: "Read Song of Solomon 7 with ellicotts commentary for english readers commentary. 1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. 2 Thy" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/song-of-solomon/7" --- [ Read](/kjv/song-of-solomon/7)[ Commentary](/study/song-of-solomon/7)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/song-of-solomon/7) Audio 1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs *are* like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. 2 Thy navel *is like* a round goblet, *which* wanteth not liquor: thy belly *is like* an heap of wheat set about with lilies.* 3 Thy two breasts *are* like two young roes *that are* twins. 4 Thy neck *is* as a tower of ivory; thine eyes *like* the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose *is* as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. 5 Thine head upon thee *is* like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king *is* held in the galleries.** 6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! 7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters *of grapes*. 8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; 9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth *down* sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.** 10 ¶ I *am* my beloved’s, and his desire *is* toward me. 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, *whether* the tender grape appear, *and* the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.* 13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates *are* all manner of pleasant *fruits*, new and old, *which* I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. [Song of Solomon 6](/study/song-of-solomon/6) [Song of Solomon 8](/study/song-of-solomon/8) ## Commentary To verse 1 **VII.** (1) **How beautiful**. . .—Literally, *How beautiful are thy feet*(or *thy steps*)*in the sandals.*This description of the beauty of the bride— “From the delicate Arab arch of her feet To the grace that, bright and light as the crest Of a peacock, sits on her shining head”— is plainly connected with the dance mentioned in the last verse, and possibly proceeds in this order, instead of from the head downwards, because the feet of a dancer would first attract attention. See end of *Excursus*III. **O prince’s daughter**!—Heb. *Bath-nadib*(the LXX. keep Ναδαβ)—evidently again suggested by *Amminadib,*in [Song of Solomon 6:12](/kjv/song-of-solomon/6/12). But as the allusion there cannot be recovered, nothing relating to the rank of the heroine can be deduced from the recurrence of *nadib*(*=*noble) here. The reference may be to character rather than descent, just as in the opposite expression, “daughter of Belial” ([1 Samuel 1:16](/kjv/1-samuel/1/16)). **Joints.**—Heb. *chamûk,*from *chamah—*went away, probably refers to the rapid movements in dancing, and the image is suggested by the graceful curves formed by a chain or pendulous ornament when in motion. 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