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Thread #104123   Message #2128596
Posted By: GUEST
18-Aug-07 - 12:09 PM
Thread Name: why there are so few Sharons in song
Subject: RE: why there are so few Sharons in song
Here are the Bible verses that refer to Sharon. Many of them are beautiful to read, though it is startling to hear that Sharon had suburbs.
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Acts 9:35 All who lived at Lydda and in Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

1 Chronicles 5:16 They lived in Gilead in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders.

1 Chronicles 27:29: and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite

Song of Songs 2:1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.


Isaiah 33:9 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.

Isaiah 35:2 It will blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Lebanon's glory Lebanon will be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They will see Yahweh's glory, the excellence of our God.

Isaiah 65:10 Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in

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I think it interesting that "Sharon's" popularity peaked in wartime. I think these Bible images of a mysterious place with flocks, roses, lilies and yes, suburbs, appealed to people.

Most Sharons I have known have the middle name Rose.