Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 2:1 | I Am the rose of Sharon, and the lillie of the valleys. |
| 2:2 | As the lillie among thornes, so is my loue among the daughters. |
| 2:3 | As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloued among the sonnes. I sate downe vnder his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweete to my taste. |
| 2:4 | Hee brought me to the banketting house, and his banner ouer mee, was loue. |
| 2:5 | Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples, for I am sicke of loue. |
| 2:6 | His left hand is vnder my head, and his right hand doeth imbrace me. |
| 2:7 | I charge you, O ye daughters of Ierusalem, by the Roes, and by the hindes of the field, that ye stirre not vp, nor awake my loue, till she please. |
| 2:8 | The voice of my beloued! behold! hee commeth leaping vpon the mountaines, skipping vpon the hils. |
| 2:9 | My beloued is like a Roe, or a yong Hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh foorth at the windowe, shewing himselfe through the lattesse. |
| 2:10 | My beloued spake, and said vnto me, Rise vp, my Loue, my faire one, and come away. |
| 2:11 | For loe, the winter is past, the raine is ouer, and gone. |
| 2:12 | The flowers appeare on the earth, the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land. |
| 2:13 | The fig tree putteth foorth her greene figs, and the vines with the tender grape giue a good smell. Arise, my loue, my faire one, and come away. |
| 2:14 | O my doue! that art in the clefts of the rocke, in the secret places of the staires: let me see thy countenance, let me heare thy voice, for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. |
| 2:15 | Take vs the foxes, the litle foxes, that spoile the vines: for our vines haue tender grapes. |
| 2:16 | My beloued is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lillies. |
| 2:17 | Untill the day breake, and the shadowes flee away: turne my beloued and be thou like a Roe, or a yong Hart, vpon the mountaines of Bether. |
King James Bible 1611
The commissioning of the King James Bible took place at a conference at the Hampton Court Palace in London England in 1604. When King James came to the throne he wanted unity and stability in the church and state, but was well aware that the diversity of his constituents had to be considered. There were the Papists who longed for the English church to return to the Roman Catholic fold and the Latin Vulgate. There were Puritans, loyal to the crown but wanting even more distance from Rome. The Puritans used the Geneva Bible which contained footnotes that the king regarded as seditious. The Traditionalists made up of Bishops of the Anglican Church wanted to retain the Bishops Bible.
The king commissioned a new English translation to be made by over fifty scholars representing the Puritans and Traditionalists. They took into consideration: the Tyndale New Testament, the Matthews Bible, the Great Bible and the Geneva Bible. The great revision of the Bible had begun. From 1605 to 1606 the scholars engaged in private research. From 1607 to 1609 the work was assembled. In 1610 the work went to press, and in 1611 the first of the huge (16 inch tall) pulpit folios known today as "The 1611 King James Bible" came off the printing press.