The bride’s neck is a “tower” (4:4), and her temples are like a “slice” of pomegranate (4:3). There is only one other place in the Old Testament where those two words occur together – the story of Abimelech’s death in Judges 9, where a woman pushes a “slice” of a millstone off a “tower” and crushes Abimelech’s head.
In her enticing beauty, the bride is similarly dangerous, though the singer of the Song of Songs seems to be enjoying being conquered more than Abimelech did.
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