Charles Ellicott Commentary Song Of Solomon 6:8

"There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, And virgins without number." — Song Of Solomon 6:8 (ASV)

There are threescore queens. — Presumably this is a description of Solomon’s harem (compare with Song of Solomon 8:11–12), though the numbers are far more restrained than in 1 Kings 11:3. Probably the latter marks a later form of the traditions of the grand scale on which everything at the monarch’s court was conducted, and this, though poetic, is a truer version of the story of his loves. The conjunction of alamôth with concubines, pilageshîm (compare παλλακή, pellex), determines its translation as puellœ rather than virgines.