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Look, it’s Solomon’s couch[a]
    with sixty soldiers around it,
    the finest soldiers of Israel.
These soldiers all carry swords
    and have been trained in war.
Every man wears a sword at his side
    and is ready for the dangers of the night.
King Solomon had a couch made for himself
    of wood from Lebanon.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:7 couch Something like a bed carried by slaves on which the king lay or sat while traveling.

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