Song of Solomon 7:4

Her neck is like a tower of ivory, long, and dazzling white. But what about the swarthiness of Song of Solomon 1:5? The answer is that the exactness and consistency of prose are not to be expected in an epithalamium. Heshbon lies five and a half hours E. of the N. point of the Dead Sea, in a fertile, well-watered region: there are several deep wells cut in the rock, and a large reservoir.