The Song of Solomon

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Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and one thousand and five songs. 1 Kings 4:32.

“The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.” Ch. 1:1.

Song of Solomon has three parties join the Song:

1. The bride, a shepherd girl with a rough home life. Ch. 1:6.

2. The bridegroom is a famous shepherd but does not name Solomon as the bridegroom, but the bride does reference Solomon’s wedding parade. Ch 3:6–11.

3. The chorus: the community celebrating the bride and bridegroom’s love and union. Ch. 8:6-7.

THE BRIDE IN THE KINGS CHAMBER. CH.1:1-2:7

Scene is a wooded area, no Palestine city near. The brides home is the the King’s summer hideaway. She says:

1. “Draw me, we will run together…“ Ch. 1:4

2. “Do not stare at me because I am black for the sun has burned me…” Ch. 1:6.

3. He replies: ”how beautiful you are my darling. Your eyes are like doves.” Ch. 1:15

MONOLOGUE OF THE BRIDE. Ch. 2:8-3:5.

1. The bride tells the chorus how she met the King: “My beloved spake, and said unto me, arise my darling my beautiful one and come along.” Ch.2:10.

2. “My beloved is mine and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies.” Ch 2:16.

3. “On my bed nite after nite I sought him whom my soul loved. I sought him but found him not.” Ch.3:1.

SEEKING AND FINDING. Ch.5:2-6:2, 7:10-11.

1. “I was asleep but my heart was awake” Ch. 5:2. The bride was dreaming.

2. “I opened to my beloved but he had withdrawn himself and was gone…I searched for him but did not find him.” Ch.5:6

3. “My beloved is gone down into his garden.” Ch. 6:2.

4. “I am my beloved, and his desire is toward me. Come my beloved, let us go forth into the field, let us lodge into the villages.” Ch.7:10-11.

THE ROYAL WEDDING. The bride is brought to Jerusalem to be married to the King. Ch. 2:4-5:1.

1. “He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.” Ch. 2:4.

2. “I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.” Ch.5:1.

THE DELIGHT OF THE BRIDE AND HER BELOVED. Ch. 8:6,7&14.

1. “Set me as a seal upon thy heart as a seal upon thy arm, for love is strong as death…” Ch. 8:6.

2. “Many waters cannot quench love.” Ch. 8:7.

3. “Make haste my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or a young hart upon the mountain of spices.” Ch. 8:14.

Overall view of the Song of Solomon:

1. It is symbolic of the love between God and his people in the Old Testament.

2. And applies to love between Christ and his Church today.