Bible Strands
Song of Solomon 4:6
Before the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will make my way to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker addresses a beloved, announcing a personal journey toward specific locations as dawn approaches. The declaration sits between a description of physical beauty and a statement of the beloved's complete flawlessness.
The words — עַד ('ad) translates literally as "until" or "before," establishing the temporal boundary of the action. אֵלֶךְ ('E.lekh) means "I will go," marking the speaker's direct movement toward the named terrain.
The thread — The dawn imagery repeats Song of Solomon 2:17, which uses identical timing language to call for a return. The named locations correspond to the spice garden cataloged in Song of Solomon 4:14.
Why it lands — The text requires the reader to observe a shift from passive description to active movement as light arrives. It asks the reader to track how the narrative moves from physical observation toward purposeful direction.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
Cross-references
- Song of Solomon 2:17 Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.
- Song of Solomon 4:14 with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of frankincense tree, with myrrh and aloes, with all the finest spices.
- Luke 1:78 because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,
- Exodus 20:24 You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.
- Exodus 30:8 When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he must burn the incense perpetually before the LORD for the generations to come.
- Exodus 30:23 “Take the finest spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half that amount (250 shekels) of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant cane,
- Exodus 37:29 He also made the sacred anointing oil and the pure, fragrant incense, the work of a perfumer.
- Deuteronomy 12:5 Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.
- Psalms 66:15 I will offer You fatlings as burnt offerings, with the fragrant smoke of rams; I will offer bulls and goats. Selah
- Isaiah 2:2 In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.