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Verse Song of Solomon 3:8. _THEY ALL HOLD SWORDS_] They are swordsmen.
Every man has a sword, and is well instructed how to use it....
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The principal and central action of the Song; the bride’s entry into
the city of David, and her marriage there with the king. Jewish
interpreters regard this part of the poem as symbolizing the
“first...
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CHAPTER 3
The scene changes. The bride is now alone and in the darkness of the
night. She is seeking her Beloved and is unable to find Him. Her heart
is filled with the same love she exhibits in the p...
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THE COMING OF THE KING. These verses are generally taken to describe
the procession of the king with his attendants coming to the wedding.
On the dramatic theory it is Solomon coming to the north wher...
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EVERY MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.
NIGHT. nights (Plural)...
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Song of Solomon 3:6-11. The King's Return
King Solomon must be supposed to be coming from Jerusalem, to the
royal residence in the North where the Shulammite is, or to be
returning thither after an a...
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_They all hold swords_ This is a circumstantial and descriptive
clause, and their holding swords is not meant to be explained by
_expert in war_, as the insertion of -being" in the A.V. might
suggest....
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TEXT 3:6-11
_SECOND SCENEThe Royal Procession
REMARKS OF THE SPECTATORS_
First Speaker: Song of Solomon 3:6
6. Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness like pillars of
smoke, perfumed with my...
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They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword
upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
THEY ALL HOLD SWORDS - not actually grasping them, but having them
"girt on the thig...
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NIGHT THOUGHTS AND AN INTERLUDE
1-4. There is a charming lightness of touch and quickness of movement
in the story she tells, and it is all the more interesting for our
having to supply the prosaic c...
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A WONDERFUL SONG ABOUT LOVE
SONG OF SONGS
_MARK KIRKPATRICK_
CHAPTER 3
THE WOMAN
V1 At night, when I was on my bed, I looked for my man.
He is the man that my heart loves....
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An ordinary young man would ask his friends to lead him to his bride.
But Solomon’s procession is much better. Israel’s best soldiers
act as his guard. They are wearing their uniforms. They are carryi...
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BECAUSE OF FEAR — _i.e.,_ because of the alarms common at night. For
_fear_ in the sense of object of fear, comp. Psalms 91:5; Proverbs
3:25....
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כֻּלָּם֙ אֲחֻ֣זֵי חֶ֔רֶב מְלֻמְּדֵ֖י
מִלְחָמָ֑ה אִ֤ישׁ...
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TRUE LOVE TESTED SONG OF SOLOMON 1:1; Song of Solomon 2:1; Song of
Solomon 3:1; Song of So
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III. The Actual Betrothal (Song of Solomon 3:6; Song of Solomon 4:1)
1. The Singer Song of Solomon 3:6). The Coming of Solomon.
2. Solomon...
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They all hold swords, [being] expert in war: every man [hath] his
sword upon his thigh because of fear (g) in the night.
(g) He alludes to the watch which kept the temple....
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They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword
upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
It is most probable that the sword here spoken of and which they are
said all to hold,...
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In chapter 3 we have another attitude, another state of heart. She is
alone and in darkness. She seeks her Beloved, but finds Him not. There
is affection, but no joy. She questions the watchmen in Jer...
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THEY ALL HOLD SWORDS,.... Or a "sword" r; the word is singular, which
designs the word of God, called the sword of the Spirit, and said to
be sharper than a twoedged sword, Ephesians 6:17 Hebrews 4:12...
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They all hold swords, [being] expert in war: every man [hath] his
sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
Ver. 8. _They all hold swords, being expert in war._] They not only
bear arms, but...
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_Behold_ The bride-men continue their speech, and from the admiration
of the bride, proceed to the admiration of the bridegroom: _his bed_
The bed seems to denote the church, which is comely through C...
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6-11 A wilderness is an emblem of the world; the believer comes out
of it when he is delivered from the love of its sinful pleasures and
pursuits, and refuses to comply with its customs and fashions,...
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HATH HIS SWORD UPON HIS THIGH; is prepared and ready to fight, as this
phrase notes, EXODUS 32:27 PSALMS 45:3. _Because of fear in the
night_; to prevent those dangers and mischiefs which are most fre...
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Song of Solomon 3:8 hold H270 (H8803) swords H2719 expert H3925
(H8794) war H4421 man H376 sword H2719 th
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_ ‘Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, Like pillars of
smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the
merchant? Behold, it is the litter of Solomon, Threescore mighty m...
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CONTENTS: The Bride seeking the favor of the Bridegroom. She calls
upon all to admire Him.
CHARACTERS: Solomon, Bride (Christ, Church).
CONCLUSION: Those who are truly of the Bride, will evince the...
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Song of Solomon 3:7. _Behold his bed, which is Solomon's;_ the palace
where he sleeps, and where so many treasures of gold and works of art
are preserved. _Threescore valiant men are about it._ His bo...
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_Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness?_
THE ROYAL PAIR IN THEIR GLORIOUS CHARIOT
Great princes in the East are in the habit of travelling in splendid
palanquins, which are at the same time c...
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NOTES
Song of Solomon 3:7. _Behold his bed which is Solomon’s_ ‘His
bed,’ מִטָתוֹ (_mittatho_) from נָטָה (_natah_), to
stretch or recline. Not the same word as in verse first, which
properly expresse...
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EXPOSITION
SONG OF SOLOMON 3:1
BY NIGHT ON MY BED I SOUGHT HIM WHOM MY SOUL LOVETH: I SOUGHT HIM, BUT
I FOUND HIM NOT. The bride is probably relating a dream. The time
referred to is the close of the...
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By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves: I sought him, but
found him not. I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets,
and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I...
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1 Thessalonians 5:6; Ephesians 6:16; Isaiah 27:3; Nehemiah 4:21;...
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Every man — Is prepared and ready to fight, to prevent those dangers
which are frequent in the night season. The night may denote the whole
time of this life, which may well be called night in respect...