The greatest love song ever written

THE SONG OF SOLOMON: A SUITE OF SEVEN IDYLLS 1. THE ROYAL WEDDING LIVED OVER AGAIN 1:1-2:7 2. THE BRIDE'S COURTSHIP REMINISCENCES 2:8-3:5 3. THE OCCASION OF THE BETROTHAL RECALLED 3:6-5:1 4. THE BRIDE'S TROUBLED DREAM RELATED 5:2-6:3 5. THE KING'S MEDITATION ON HIS BRIDE 6:4-7:9 6. THE BRIDE LONGS TO SEE HER OLD HOME 7:10-8:4 7. THE RENEWAL OF LOVE AT LEBANON 8:5-14

THE BRIDE'S TROUBLED DREAM RELATED

(Son 5:2) I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. (Son 5:3) I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? (Son 5:4) My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. (Son 5:5) I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. (Son 5:6) I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

(Son 5:8) I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

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(Son 5:9) What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

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(Son 5:10-13) My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven. His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

(Son 5:14) His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. (Son 5:15) His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. (Son 5:16) His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

(Act 1:8) But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

(Isa 53:1-3) Who hath believed our report (Isa 53:1-3) Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

(Son 5:16) His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely (Son 5:16) His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

NOTES In the Middle east in ancient times, no one would ever walk into the chambers without being summonsed (Esther ) But in all cases the king would have a group called “his Friends” that were able to come in and out as they pleased

(Joh 15:14) Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. (Joh 15:13) Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (Joh 15:14) Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. (Joh 15:15) Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

(Son 6:1) Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women (Son 6:1) Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

(Son 6:2) My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies. (Son 6:3) I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

(1Co 3:6) I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. (1Co 3:7) So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. (1Co 3:8) Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. (1Co 3:9) For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.

THE SONG OF SOLOMON: A SUITE OF SEVEN IDYLLS 1. THE ROYAL WEDDING LIVED OVER AGAIN 1:1-2:7 2. THE BRIDE'S COURTSHIP REMINISCENCES 2:8-3:5 3. THE OCCASION OF THE BETROTHAL RECALLED 3:6-5:1 4. THE BRIDE'S TROUBLED DREAM RELATED 5:2-6:3 5. THE KING'S MEDITATION ON HIS BRIDE 6:4-7:9 6. THE BRIDE LONGS TO SEE HER OLD HOME 7:10-8:4 7. THE RENEWAL OF LOVE AT LEBANON 8:5-14

(Son 6:4) Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

(Son 6:4) Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

(2Ch 6:6) But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have chosen David to be over my people Israel. (Psa 87:2-3) The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. (Psa 48:2) Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

(Son 6:4) Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. (Son 6:10) Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

(Rev 19:14) And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. (Jud 1:14) And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

(Son 6:4) Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. (Son 5:10) My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

(Son 2:4) He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

(Psa 60:4) Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

(Joh 13:34) A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. (Joh 13:35) By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

(Son 6:8) There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. (Son 6:9) My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

NOTES Adam- flood Flood to Abraham Abraham to Moses(Law) Moses to the Death of Christ Death of Christ to the Rapture Rapture to 2nd coming 2nd coming 1000 year reign

(Mat 11:11) Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.