The Song of Solomon, Chapter 3 Love Seeking the Bridegroom

In Mahaka his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made an abominable image for Asherah. But the high places were not taken out of Israel. And there was no more war until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazels or the deer of the field, that you stir not up nor awaken love until it please. How about it are sixty mighty men of the mighty men of Israel, all built with swords, each with his sword at his thigh against alarms by night? The litter of Solomon is a column of smoke perfumed with myrrh and