Matthew Poole and continuators on Song of Solomon 1:9

9 I have compared thee , O my love, to a company of Horses in Pharaohs chariots .

Heb. I have made thee like; which may be understood either 1. Verbally, by comparing. Or 2. Really, by making a real resemblance in Quality or Condition.

Either 1. For comeliness; for an Horse is a very stately and beautiful Creature, and the Egyptian Horses were preferred before others, 1 King. 10. 28. Isa. 31. 1. and Pharaohs own Charet Horses were doubtless the best of their kind. Or 2. For excellent order and usefulness, as those Horses did equally and orderly draw the Chariot, and carried Pharaoh with ease and speed whither he designed to go. Or rather 3. For strength and courage, to overcome all thine Enemies. For Horses are famous for that property, Iob 39. 21, &c. And the strength of the Battle was then thought to consist very much in Horses, Prov. 21. 31. and Chariots, and especially in a company or multitude of them. And the Chureh in this Book is represented not only as fair and beautiful, but also as terrible to her enemies, Cant. 6. 10. Compare Rev. 19. 11, 14.

Marginal references: Ch. 2. 2, 10, 1[illegible: 1+ letters]. & 4. 1, 7. & [illegible: 1+ letters]. 2. & 6. 4. Joh. 14. 15.