Bible Book OrderIsaiah 31 Song of Solomon
The following is a map between Isaiah 31 and Song of Solomon. The key matches are Pharaoh's Chariots, Lions and Fire of Yahvah. Question marks signify unknown matches.
Pharaoh's Chariots
13 Isaiah 31:1-3
1Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!
2Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When the Lord shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they all shall fail together.
31 Song of Solomon 1:9
9I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
Lions
13 Isaiah 31:4
4For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
31 Song of Solomon 4:8
8¶Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
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13 Isaiah 31:5
5As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
Gold*
13 Isaiah 31:7
7For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
31 Song of Solomon 5:14-15
14His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.
15His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
*I'm not sure this match is correct.
Fire of Yahvah*
13 Isaiah 31:8-9
8¶Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
9And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
31 Song of Solomon 8:6-7
6¶Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
7Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
*The last phrase in Song of Solomon 8:6, in the ASV, reads "a very flame of Jehovah." The KJV reads "a most vehement flame." Given the match to Isaiah 31:9, it seems the ASV is the better translation here.
