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United Kingdom – Part 2Lesson 23

Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon

• 3000 year old play (poetic language)

• Emphasis on romantic love

• Anticipation of aspects of marriage

Song of Solomon

• Various Interpretations • Figurative allegory

• Literal – 2 major views• Two Characters (Solomon, Shulammite

woman)

• Three Characters (Solomon, Shulammite woman, and the shepherd)

Love

• The bride is brought into the chambers of the King

• She is thinking of her love

• She is self conscience of her appearance

• “Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, Where do you pasture your flock, …”

Solomon and the Shulammite

• They are together (1:8)

• Solomon looks to woo her (1:9-15)

• She complements him back (1:16)

• She begins to long for her true love (2:3-6)

Dreams of her love

• The First Song of the Shulammite

• 2:8-17 – Seems to be as day dream of her love and what he has said to her

• 3:1-5 – Reflects on her dream at night and her searching to find him then finding him

Love faces off

• The procession with Solomon

• Chapter 4• Solomon’s words of love

• The Shepherd’s words of love

A Second Dream

• Chapter 5

• She may be too late. He is gone.

• She is lovesick

• Her description of her beloved

Solomon’s third attempt

• Solomon repeats his love of her beauty

• The queens and concubines speak of her beauty

• Solomon states his desire to be with her

• She responds that she is her beloved

Love is victorious

• She comes back to her home with her beloved

• Her brothers speak

• She speaks of what she has

• Make haste for the marriage

Key Verses

• 2:7 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

• 2:16 My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.

• 8:6 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

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