Solomon Chapter 1

Introduction:

This writing or poem is coded as songs (1king 4:32 & Is 5:1). There is a similarity when compared with the story of Ruth. Moreover, it is a narration of a Go-getter or the lady in love and in the midst of her rivals or daughters of Jerusalem. It is the expression of the feelings of a lady to a king or the feelings of two lovers to one another. It is a record of her actions and the reactions from personalities involved in her love affairs. She expressed a thorough understanding of her UNCLE (H1730), the bride-friends/girl's-guild, the king or the bridegroom himself, the king's mother and daughter of Zion. She also understands the barrier constituted by the daughters of Jerusalem and how to overcome it by challenging them to openly declare their love like her. On the other hand, the king also expressed things he knew about the bride and the bride family. 

God loves mankind and want men to love one another with HIS selfless kind of love. This can naturally starts between a man and a woman, who are expected to be true friends, who know each other, trust each other, respect each other, believe in each other, ready to lift each other up and can correct each other politely and patiently. The writings exemplifies two friends with those prospects. 

However, duration of such relationship is limited, so the need for the most important relationship that we must cherish, and that is a friendship with the Holy Spirit. This is a relationship that can last for the entire life-span of man. Hence, sound-mind is required for correct spiritual application of the story.

Caution: Holy-Spirit is not a Dove or Pigeon. HE is the INVISIBLE SPIRIT of Jehovah God. As you read on, dove or pigeon is just what it is, please.

Song of Solomon 

Solomon 1

1 Songs to Solomon and songs from him;

The words of the Lady in love 

2 What a kiss, when a good uncle kisses with some wine in his mouth! 

3 and, for a virgin to love someone "with a (big)-name", it is like the scent of (perfumed) oil, when  a good oil is being emptied/poured out. 

4 So, when I remember the uprightness of someone I love, I run to my uncle's bedchamber for wine, and after drawing it out, I spin around and rejoice to go to the king- - 

5 - Daughters of Jerusalem, I am from the black/dark (people) of Kedar (Ismaelites), from our tents of curtain/sheets of fabric and it is Solomon who eagerly desire me.

6 - looking at our very very-dark sons, it is because they are put under the sun, while keeping vineyards, even as they keep the vineyard of their mother; they are scorched and got tanned/sun-burnt.

7 Who will boldly tell me, where the herd/flock of the soul I love, crouch/rest and how they are being fed/taken care of? Where does he covers/veils himself with his colleagues/friends at noonday?

She describes her girl's guild

8 I know of our beautiful married women who go forth to shepherd/feed the flock and will still feed the  young-goats in their dwelling-place/tabernacle later in the day. 

9 my female-partners/associate of ladies/girl's guild resemble the female-horses of Pharaoh chariots;

10 their cheeks are pleasant and their BEADs are in sequence/order on their necks - 

11 - - made of gold  and dotted/punctuated with silver in order/in rows/in turn.

12  for the King to be like a pivot-point of scent given by a spike-nard;

13 - I will pack/bundle myrrh from my Uncle, on my chest/breast and stay/tarry overnight;

14 - - and bunches/clusters of grapes from my uncle's village even from his vineyard at Engedi (springs for kids in Palestine).

15 my girl's guild are beautiful with beautiful eyes of doves (johah). 

16 My uncle is handsome and how pleasant and greenish are his cradle/bed!

17 his furniture are of cedar-trees and the events or the happenings in his house are of well-being/nourishments.

Solomon Chapter 2

Solomon 2

The lady continues.....

1 his (red) Rose are in the plain of sharon, and his (white) lilies are in the valley;

2 but like lily among thorns, so are my girl's guild among daughters (of Jerusalem). 

In courtesy of her uncle

3 the apple trees of my Uncle are in the forest. Children delight in their shade and sit down under them, and their fruits are sweet to the palate of their mouth. 

4  households come there under a banner/flag of love for his wine;

5 -- he props up/supports those who are closely-pressed and weak, as they spread their bed of love under the apple-trees - 

6 -- their head-masters are embraced/hug with his (both) left and right hands.

First time of sending a challenge to her rivals

7 either doe/female-deer or male-deer could stir up affection/love in the field; oh oh! You daughters of Jerusalem, sware on oath (to your wish), if you are so desired/willing, at least, stir it up.

In courtesy of her Uncle 

8 what a voice of my uncle! As he comes, they are skipping on the hills and jumping on the mountain. 

9 my uncle would peep/glance through the lattice/net of his window, at his male-deer/hart, and while he will stand on the wall, the deers/rams resembling dirt/dust will pop out.

Her uncle speaks to the girl's guild. 

10 the Uncle answered and said: rise up, beautiful girl's-guild and walk along.

11 things change from shower of rain to autumn (sept-nov), therefore, as the wayfarers pass over, 

12 that is the time to reconnoiter/explore and listen to the sound and the music of the land (in turn), and to see and touch things that bud/sprout on the land--

13 -- the smell of twinning-vine to spice up/embalm torbid/crude things and fig trees that give you blossom/smadar (sign of late-spring or new beginning -(Mar-May)). Arise my beautiful girl's-guild and walk along, - 

14 - to see the view/appearance, even the (pleasant) appearance of doves to be eagerly desired, and to listen to the sound, even to their voice in the evening; as they step up to feast in the hidden place in the cleft of craggy-rocks.

The lady continues....

15 And in the vine-yard, fox and little-fox are caught in wound-ropes in the vine-yard, during blossoming/smadar.

16 even as it were, my Uncle still tend/take care of his (white) lilies.

17 and with the male-deers and rams of my Uncle, resembling dusts, fleeing to a mountain, which fan breeze on sections of its shade all round the day.

Solomon Chapter 3

Solomon 3

The lady continues....

1 I will seek after a Soul that I love, even I will seek from my bed to find him in the night.

2 I will rise up, to seek for the Soul I love, I will find him in the wide-street/avenue all around  the city, even I will seek him in the market streets. 

3 Will the keeper all around the city, find and see the Soul I love?

4 even though It will weaken me, in a little while, I will found the Soul I love, I will go and cross over to the house of his mother, even into the chamber/apartment of the one who was pregnant of/conceived him, and there I will grab/catch him. 

The second time of sending a challenge to her opponents

5 As doe/female-deer or male-deer would stir up affection/love in the field. Oh oh! You daughters of Jerusalem, seven it/sware to your wish, and be awake, at least, if you are willing/so desired. 

What she know about the glory of the king/her bridegroom, against the rumors

6 can smoke from burners of myrrh and white-frankincense-powder, ascend/mount up to a date-palm's fronds in the desert. So, why the rumors/gossip? 

7 that - sixty warriors/powerful men stretched out round about for Solomon's political administration, even out of the warriors/powerful men of Israel; - 

8 that - they are trained for battle, even to seize with swords, and each man with his sword on his hip/thigh, because of sudden alarms in the night-time;

9 that - canopy of King Solomon is constructed with timber of Lebanon, 

10 that - its pillars are made of silver, and its lining-base are of gold. That the saddles/carriages (on his chariots) are of crimson, tesselated/patterned in sequence from the center. With LOVE, the daughters of Jerusalem - 

11 - should have gone out and see the Crown on the King Solomon and her mother and the daughters of Zion, on the day the bride-groom was crowned even a day of joy from her heart.