Your hair is beautiful upon your cheeks and falls along your neck like jewels.

Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes are like the pools in the city of Heshbon, near the gate of that great city. Your nose is as lovely as the tower of Lebanon that stands guard at Damascus.

God gives great victories to his king; he shows constant love to the one he has chosen, to David and his descendants forever.

Instead, by speaking the truth in a spirit of love, we must grow up in every way to Christ, who is the head.

Under his control all the different parts of the body fit together, and the whole body is held together by every joint with which it is provided. So when each separate part works as it should, the whole body grows and builds itself up through love.

and have stopped holding on to Christ, who is the head of the body. Under Christ's control the whole body is nourished and held together by its joints and ligaments, and it grows as God wants it to grow.

They are for you, who through faith are kept safe by God's power for the salvation which is ready to be revealed at the end of time.

Ezer son of Jeshua, ruler of Mizpah, built the next section in front of the armory, as far as the place where the wall turns;

Solomon made two hundred large shields, each of which was covered with about fifteen pounds of beaten gold,

and three hundred smaller shields, each covered with about eight pounds of beaten gold. He had them all placed in the Hall of the Forest of Lebanon.

King Shishak came to Jerusalem and took the treasures from the Temple and from the palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that King Solomon had made.

Every time the king went to the Temple, the guards carried the shields and then returned them to the guardroom.