6 Bible Verses about Lilies

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Song of Solomon 5:13

His cheeks are like garden beds full of balsam trees yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with drops of myrrh.

Hosea 14:4-5

"I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them. I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.

Song of Solomon 2:1

The Beloved to Her Lover: I am a meadow flower from Sharon, a lily from the valleys.

1 Kings 7:19-22

The tops of the two pillars in the porch were shaped like lilies and were six feet high. On the top of each pillar, right above the bulge beside the latticework, there were two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments arranged in rows all the way around. He set up the pillars on the porch in front of the main hall. He erected one pillar on the right side and called it Jakin; he erected the other pillar on the left side and called it Boaz.read more.
The tops of the pillars were shaped like lilies. So the construction of the pillars was completed.

2 Chronicles 4:4-5

"The Sea" stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. "The Sea" was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward. It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.

Luke 12:27-28

Consider how the flowers grow; they do not work or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory was clothed like one of these! And if this is how God clothes the wild grass, which is here today and tomorrow is tossed into the fire to heat the oven, how much more will he clothe you, you people of little faith!

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Hosea 14:5

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.

Song of Songs 2:2

The Lover to His Beloved: Like a lily among the thorns, so is my darling among the maidens.

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Hosea 14:5

I will be like the dew to Israel; he will blossom like a lily, he will send down his roots like a cedar of Lebanon.

Song of Songs 2:2

The Lover to His Beloved: Like a lily among the thorns, so is my darling among the maidens.

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