Song of Solomon 2:5 · KJV
“Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I {am} sick of love. {comfort...: Heb. straw me with apples}”
— Song of Solomon 2:5
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me {was} love. {banqueting...: Heb. house of wine}
His left hand {is} under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
Song of Solomon 2 — Context
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so {is} my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit {was} sweet to my taste. {I sat...: Heb. I delighted and sat down, etc} {taste: Heb. palate}
4He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me {was} love. {banqueting...: Heb. house of wine}
5Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I {am} sick of love. {comfort...: Heb. straw me with apples}
6His left hand {is} under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
7I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake {my} love, till he please. {I charge...: Heb. I adjure you}
Cross References
Song of Solomon 5:8
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I {am} sick of love. {that ye: Heb. what, etc}
2 Samuel 6:19
And he dealt among all the people, {even} among the whole multitude of Israel, as well to the women as men, to every one a cake of bread, and a good piece {of flesh}, and a flagon {of wine}. So all the people departed every one to his house.
Hosea 3:1
Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of {her} friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. {of wine: Heb. of grapes}
Psalms 4:6-7
{There be} many that say, Who will shew us {any} good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Psalms 119:130-131
The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
Isaiah 26:8-9
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of {our} soul {is} to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
Song of Solomon 7:8
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;
Luke 24:32
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
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