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Psalm 45:9
Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
7You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
8All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
9Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.
10Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.
11So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.
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Gold from Ophir and a place at the king’s right hand draw attention to the queen’s visible honor within this royal wedding song.
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1 Kings 2:19Bathsheba therefore went to King Solomon, to speak to him for Adonijah. The king rose up to meet her and bowed himself to her, and sat down on his throne and …The queen stands at the king’s right hand in the psalm; Solomon seats his mother Bathsheba at his right hand.
Revelation 21:9One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls which were loaded with the seven last plagues came, and he spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you …The royal wedding setting shares bridal imagery with Revelation’s announcement of the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
Song of Songs 6:8There are sixty queens, eighty concubines, and virgins without number.Both passages describe women within a royal setting, though Song of Songs lists queens, concubines, and virgins.
Song of Songs 6:9My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother’s only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her …Both scenes distinguish one woman amid other women: the queen stands beside the king, while the beloved receives praise.
Matthew 25:33He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.Both passages specify the right hand as a place of distinction, though Matthew describes separation rather than a wedding.
Revelation 21:2I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.The queen’s gold and New Jerusalem’s appearance as an adorned bride share the visible splendor of a wedding.
Ephesians 5:26–27that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,The connection is indirect: gold adorns the queen in the psalm; Ephesians speaks of cleansing with the word.
Revelation 19:7Let’s rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let’s give the glory to him. For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready.”The psalm’s royal wedding scene shares a marriage setting with the announcement that the Lamb’s wedding has come.
John 3:29He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. …Both passages have a marriage setting, with the psalm describing the queen’s place and John describing the bridegroom’s friend rejoicing.
Song of Songs 7:1How beautiful are your feet in sandals, prince’s daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.Kings’ daughters and a prince’s daughter connect the passages through royal women, with gold and jewels contributing to their splendor.
Isaiah 60:10–11“Foreigners will build up your walls, and their kings will serve you; for in my wrath I struck you, but in my favor I have had mercy on you.Royal figures appear in both scenes: kings’ daughters among honored women, and kings serving a city shown God’s mercy.
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