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Song of Sol. 2:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. δI sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruiti was sweet to my ζtaste.

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I delighted and sat down.

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Rev. 22:1‑2• ¹And he showed me a river of water of life bright as crystal proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb.
²In the midst of the street of it and of the river, on this side and on that side, {i}was the{/i} tree of life producing twelve fruits, every month yielding its fruit; and the leaves of the tree for healing of the nations. (Rev. 22:1‑2)

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palate.

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Apple; Apple Tree,

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the apple tree.

Song of Sol. 8:5• ⁵Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness,{HR}Leaning upon her beloved?{HR}I awoke thee under the apple-tree:{HR}There thy mother brought thee forth,{HR}There she travailed that bore thee. (Song of Sol. 8:5)

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Isa. 4:2• ²In that day shall the Branch of Jehovah be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. (Isa. 4:2)

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Ezek. 17:23‑24• ²³in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell.
²⁴And all the trees of the field shall know that I Jehovah have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I Jehovah have spoken and have done it. (Ezek. 17:23‑24)

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John 15:1‑8• ¹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
²Every branch in me not bearing fruit, he taketh it away; and every one that beareth fruit, he cleanseth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
³Already ye are clean, because of the word which I have spoken to you.
⁴Abide in me, and I in you: as the branch cannot bear fruit from itself, unless it abide in the vine; so neither [can] ye, unless ye abide in me.
⁵I am the vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, he beareth much fruit; because apart from me ye can do nothing.
⁶If one abide not in me, he is cast out as the branch, and is dried up: and they gather it, and cast [it] into the fire, and it burneth.
⁷If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask what ye will, and it shall come to pass for you.
⁸In this is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, and [ye shall] become my disciples. (John 15:1‑8)

my beloved.

Song of Sol. 5:9‑10,16• ⁹What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved,{HR}Thou fairest among women?{HR}What is thy beloved more than [another] beloved,{HR}That thou dost so charge us?
¹⁰My beloved [is] white and ruddy,{HR}The chiefest among ten thousand.
¹⁶His mouth [is] most sweet;{HR}Yea he [is] altogether lovely.{HR}This [is] my beloved, yea this [is] my friend,{HR}O daughters of Jerusalem. (Song of Sol. 5:9‑10,16)

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Psa. 45:2• ²Thou hast been very fair above the sons of men;{HR}Grace hath been poured into thy lips;{HR}Therefore God hath blessed thee forever. (Psa. 45:2)

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Psa. 89:6• ⁶For who in the sky can compare with Jehovah?{HR}[Who] among the sons of the mighty (plural) can be likened to Jehovah? (Psa. 89:6)

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John 1:14‑18• ¹⁴And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only-begotten from beside a father), full of grace and truth.
¹⁵John witnesseth about him, and hath cried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that cometh after me is become before me, for he was before me,
¹⁶and of his fullness all we received, and grace for grace.
¹⁷For the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
¹⁸No one hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father—he declared [him]. (John 1:14‑18)

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John 3:29‑31• ²⁹He that hath the bride is [the] bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom that standeth and heareth him rejoiceth with joy because of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy then is fulfilled.
³⁰He must increase, but I decrease.
³¹He that cometh from above is above all. He that is of the earth is of the earth, and speaketh [as] of the earth; he that cometh of the heaven is above all, (John 3:29‑31)

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Heb. 1:1‑6• ¹In many measures and in many manners of old God having spoken to the fathers in the prophets
²at [the] end of these days spoke to us in a Son, whom he constituted heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
³who being effulgence of his glory and expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made [by himself] purification of our sins sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,
⁴having become by so much better than the angels as he hath by inheritance a name more excellent than they.
⁵For to which of the angels did he ever say, My Son art thou: I this day have begotten thee? and again, I will be to him for father, and he shall be to me for Son?
⁶But again, when he bringeth in the firstborn into the inhabited earth, he saith, And let all God's angels worship him. (Heb. 1:1‑6)

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Heb. 3:1‑6• ¹Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus,
²faithful as he was to him that appointed him, as also Moses in all his house.
³For he hath been accounted worthy of more glory than Moses by how much he that built it hath more honour than the house.
⁴For every house is builded by someone; but he that built all things [is] God.
⁵And Moses indeed [was] faithful in all his house as an attendant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken,
⁶but Christ as Son over his house, whose house are we if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of the hope firm unto the end. (Heb. 3:1‑6)

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Heb. 7:23‑26• ²³And they indeed are become many more priests, because by death they are hindered from continuing;
²⁴but he because of his abiding forever hath the priesthood untransferable.
²⁵Whence also he is able to save completely those that approach God through him, as ever living to intercede for them.
²⁶For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens, (Heb. 7:23‑26)

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Heb. 12:2• ²looking off unto Jesus the leader and completer of faith; who for the joy set before him endured cross, despising shame, and is set down on the right hand of the throne of God. (Heb. 12:2)

I sat, etc.

Heb. I delighted and sat down, etc.

Judg. 9:15,19‑20• ¹⁵{i}And the thorn-bush said to the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, come, put confidence in my shadow; but if not, fire shall come out of the thorn-bush and devour the cedars of Lebanon.{/i}
¹⁹{i}—if ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;{/i}
²⁰{i}but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the citizens of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the citizens of Shechem and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.{/i} (Judg. 9:15,19‑20)

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Psa. 57:1• ¹To the chief musician; Al-tascheth , of David, Michtam, on his fleeing from Saul in the cave.{HR}Be gracious unto me, O God, be gracious unto me;{HR}For my soul [is] trusting in thee;{HR}And in the shadow of thy wings will I trust until mischiefs shall pass. (Psa. 57:1)

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Psa. 91:1• ¹He that dwelleth in covert of the Most High{HR}Abideth in the shadow of the Almighty. (Psa. 91:1)

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Isa. 4:6• ⁶And there shall be a booth for a shadow in the day-time from the heat, and for a refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain. (Isa. 4:6)

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Isa. 25:4• ⁴For thou hast been a fortress to the poor, a fortress to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat; for the blast of the terrible ones [was] as a storm [against] a wall. (Isa. 25:4)

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Isa. 32:2• ²And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. (Isa. 32:2)

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1 John 1:3‑4• ³that which we have seen and have heard we report to you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us; yea, and our fellowship [is] with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
⁴And these things [we] write [to you] that your joy may be made full. (1 John 1:3‑4)

his fruit.

Song of Sol. 2:5• ⁵Stay ye me with raisin-cakes,{HR}Refresh me with citrons;{HR}For I am sick of love. (Song of Sol. 2:5)

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Gen. 3:22‑24• ²²And Jehovah Elohim said, Behold, the man is become as one of us to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat and live forever, …
²³Therefore Jehovah Elohim sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken.
²⁴So he drove out the man; and he placed eastward of Eden's garden the Cherubim and the blade of the flashing sword to keep the way of the tree of life. (Gen. 3:22‑24)

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Ezek. 47:12• ¹²And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine. (Ezek. 47:12)

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Rev. 22:1‑2• ¹And he showed me a river of water of life bright as crystal proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb.
²In the midst of the street of it and of the river, on this side and on that side, {i}was the{/i} tree of life producing twelve fruits, every month yielding its fruit; and the leaves of the tree for healing of the nations. (Rev. 22:1‑2)

taste.

Heb. palate.

• Observe here that Christ is the apple tree. This will help us afterwards. (“Song of Solomon 2” by J.N. Darby)

• The Bride. (Vss. 3-7). (“Canticle 1: The Assurance of Love” by H. Smith)

• If the King sees excellence in the bride above all the daughters of women, the bride sees in her Beloved the only one among the sons of men in whom she can find rest, and shade, and fruit. Thus she likens Him to the citron tree with its dense shade and luscious fruit. (“Canticle 1: The Assurance of Love” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons: In his shadow have I rapture and sit down; And his fruit is sweet to my taste.

W. Kelly Translation

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As the citron among the trees of the wood,{HR}So is my beloved among the sons.{HR}In his shadow I delighted and sat down,{HR}And his fruit [is] sweet to my taste.