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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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