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SONG OF SOLOMON 7:5

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tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus. 5 Thine head upon thee is like 1 Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries. 6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! 7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes. 8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples; 9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak. The Shulamite wife answers Solomon 10 I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me. 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the ten der grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves. 13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. Song of Solomon 8 The Shulamite queen ponders Solomon’s arrival Date Written - c. 1007 BC/AM 2993 1 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised. 2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. 3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. The thrice-repeated charge 4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until 2 he please. The villagers watch as the couple approach 5 Who is this that cometh up from the

wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Solomon reminiscences I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee. 6 Set me as a 3 seal upon thine heart, as a 3 seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; 4 jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. The step brothers of the Shulamite (SOS 1:6) remember when she was little 8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? 9 If she be a 5 wall, 6 we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a 7 door, 8 we will inclose her with boards of cedar. The Shulamite answers 10 I am a 5 wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in 9 his eyes as one that found favour. The shrewdness of Solomon 11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baal- hamon; he 10 let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a 11 thousand pieces of silver. The Shulamite queen speaks to Solomon 12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof 12 two hundred. Solomon answers his queen 13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it. The Shulamite queen responds The Shulamite queen desires to be King Solomon’s most treasured possession

1. that is, “Mount Carmel” 2. or, “it; love” 3. or, “ornament” 4. Prov 6:34-35 5. that is, “one who possesses Godly convictions; dependable” 6. that is, “we will honor and reward her” 7. that is, “one who is loose and without convictions; undependable” 8. that is, “ we will be tough and stern with her” 9. or, “King Solomon” 10. or, “leased out” 11. or, “c. 25 pounds of silver” 12. or, “200 shekels of silver; c. 5 pounds”

14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. READ NEXT - I Kings 4:33 - 6:37 8:1 Having fallen in love with Solomon, the Shulamite bride now wished she had known him like she had known her own family ( O that thou wert as my brother ); that they could have known one another from infancy. How often do we (we that make up the Church) long with an intense longing to have known and loved the heavenly BRIDEGROOM from the beginning! How utterly wasted and lost those years now seem which were spent without HIM . Oh… how we envy those who have known the LORD all their lives: the Moses’ (Exo 1-2), the Samuel’s (I Sam 1), the David’s (I Sam