Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thy neck is like the tower of David builded with bulwarks, whereupon there hang a thousand shields; yea, all the weapons of the giants.
New American Standard Bible
Built
On which are
All the round
King James Version
Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
Holman Bible
constructed in layers.
A thousand bucklers are hung on it—
all of them shields of warriors.
International Standard Version
Your neck is like the tower of David, built with rows of stones. A thousand shields are hung upon it, all the shields of the warriors.
American Standard Version
Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armory, Whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, All the shields of the mighty men.
Amplified
“Your neck is like the tower of David,
Built with rows of [glistening] stones,
Whereon hang a thousand shields,
All of them shields of warriors.
Bible in Basic English
Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.
Darby Translation
Thy neck is like the tower of David, Built for an armoury: A thousand bucklers hang thereon, All shields of mighty men.
Julia Smith Translation
As the tower of David thy neck, built for the weapons; a thousand shields hung upon it, all shields of the powerful.
King James 2000
Your neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, on which there hang a thousand shields, all shields of mighty men.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Your neck [is] like the tower of David, built in courses; a thousand {ornaments} are hung on it, all the shields of the warriors.
Modern King James verseion
Your neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, on which there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
NET Bible
Your neck is like the tower of David built with courses of stones; one thousand shields are hung on it -- all shields of valiant warriors.
New Heart English Bible
Your neck is like David's tower built for an armory, whereon a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.
The Emphasized Bible
Like the tower of David, is thy neck, built for war, - A thousand shields, hung thereon, all, equipment of heroes:
Webster
Thy neck is like the tower of David built for an armory, on which hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
World English Bible
Your neck is like David's tower built for an armory, whereon a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.
Youngs Literal Translation
As the tower of David is thy neck, built for an armoury, The chief of the shields are hung on it, All shields of the mighty.
Themes
Armory » A place for the storage of armor
military Arms » For sieges: » Armories built for
Shields » In times of peace were hung up in towers of armories
Towers » Illustrative of » The grace and dignity of the church
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 19 Translations in Song of Solomon 4:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Groom's Praise Of His Bride
3 Thy lips are like a rose colored ribbon, thy words are lovely: thy cheeks are like a piece of a pomegranate, within thine hairs. 4 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded with bulwarks, whereupon there hang a thousand shields; yea, all the weapons of the giants. 5 Thy two breasts are like two twins of young roes, which feed among the lilies.
Names
Cross References
Song of Songs 7:4
Thy neck is as it were a tower of ivory; thine eyes are like the water pools in Heshbon, by the port of Bathrabbim. Thy nose is like the tower of Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus.
Nehemiah 3:19
After him Ezer the son of Jeshua, the ruler of Mizphah, builded the other piece hard over against the harness corner.
2 Samuel 1:21
Ye mountains of Gilboa, upon you be neither dew nor rain, nor fields whence heave offerings come: For there the shields of the mighty were cast from them, the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oil.
2 Samuel 22:51
For thy great and manifold saving of thy king, and showing mercy unto thine anointed, even to David, and his seed forever.
2 Chronicles 9:15-16
And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of gold, six hundred sicles of beaten gold to a buckler;
2 Chronicles 12:9-11
And Shishak king of Egypt came to Jerusalem and took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and shortly he took all. And he took also the shields of gold which Solomon made.
Song of Songs 1:10
Then shall thy cheeks and thy neck be made fair, and hanged with spangles and goodly jewels:
Ezekiel 27:10-11
The Persians, Lydians and Libyans were in thine host, and helped thee to fight: these hanged up their shields and helmets with thee; these set forth thy beauty.
Ephesians 4:15-16
But let us follow the truth in love, and in all things grow in him which is the head, that is to say Christ,
Colossians 2:19
and holdeth not the head: whereof all the body by joints and couples receiveth nourishment, and is knit together, and increaseth with the increasing that cometh of God.
1 Peter 1:5
which are kept by the power of God through salvation, which salvation is prepared already to be showed in the last time,