Textus Receptus Bibles
King James Bible 1611
| 6:1 | Whither is thy beloued gone? O thou fairest among women, whither is thy beloued turned aside? that we may seeke him with thee. |
| 6:2 | My beloued is gone downe into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feede in the gardens, and to gather lillies. |
| 6:3 | I am my beloueds, & my beloued is mine: he feedeth among the lillies. |
| 6:4 | Thou art beautifull, O my loue, as Tirzah, comely as Ierusalem, terrible as an armie with banners. |
| 6:5 | Turne away thine eyes from me, for they haue ouercome me: thy haire is a flocke of goates, that appeare from Gilead. |
| 6:6 | Thy teeth are as a flocke of sheepe which goe vp from the washing, wherof euery one beareth twinnes, and there is not one barren among them. |
| 6:7 | As a piece of a pomegranat are thy temples within thy lockes. |
| 6:8 | There are threescore Queenes, and fourescore concubines, and virgins without number. |
| 6:9 | My doue, my vndefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her: The daughters sawe her, and blessed her; yea the Queenes and the concubins, and they praysed her. |
| 6:10 | Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, faire as the moone, cleare as the sunne, and terrible as an armie with banners? |
| 6:11 | I went downe into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, and to see whether the vine flourished, and the pomegranats budded. |
| 6:12 | Or euer I was aware, my soule made me like the chariots of Amminadib. |
| 6:13 | Returne, returne, O Shulamite; returne, returne, that we may looke vpon thee: what will yee see in the Shulamite? as it were the company of two armies. |
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.