Love confident
Friends
6
📚Where has your beloved gone,O most beautiful of women?
Which way did your beloved turn?
6:1 Our longings for Christ’s fellowship, our praise of His qualities, will stir others up to seek Him.⚜
Tell us so that we may seek him with you.
Bride
2 📚My beloved has gone down into
his garden, to the beds of spices,
to graze his flock in the gardens,
and to gather lilies.
6:2 She suddenly realizes where her lover will be, and ceases her fruitless wanderings about the city’s streets.⚜
3 📚I am my beloved’s,
and my beloved is mine.
He feeds his flock among the lilies.
Love praises the loved one
Bridegroom
4 📚You are as beautiful, O my love,
as Tirzah 📖, lovely as Jerusalem 📖,
awesome as an army 📖 with banners.
5 📚Turn your eyes away from me,
for they have overcome me.
Your hair is like a flock of goats that
appears from Gilead.
6 📚Your teeth are like a flock of sheep
which goes up from the washing,
each one of which bears twins,
and there is not one barren among them.
7 📚Like a piece of a pomegranate are
your temples behind your veil.
6:5-7 Similar to Song 4:1-3. Her look of love stirs up such love in Him that He can hardly bear it (v 5. Also Song 4:9).⚜
8 📚There are sixty queens, and eighty
concubines,
and virgins without number.
9 📚My dove, my undefiled is unique 📖.
She is the only one of her mother,
the favorite of the one who bore her.
The daughters saw her, and called her
blessed;
yes, the queens and the concubines,
and they praised her.
6:4-9 Throughout the Song of songs we see that he is far more taken up with her than she is with him. She gets distracted by other things but he does not. Christ’s love for His church in this world is far more fervent and real than the church’s love for Christ. His love is the example of what ours should be.⚜
10 📚Who is she who appears like the dawn,
fair as the moon, bright as the sun,
6:10 The true church is as beautiful and majestic in Christ’s eyes as the most beautiful things in creation. The grace and glory of God rest on her.⚜
and awesome as an army with banners?
Bride
11 📚I went down into the garden of
nut trees to see the fruits of the valley,
and to see whether the vine flourished,
and the pomegranates budded.
12 📚Before I was aware, my soul set me
6:11-12 Who is speaking? Judging from v 13 it is the bride whom the friends call back. The Hebrew of v 12 is obscure, so both the literal meaning and the spiritual application are equally so. Verse 11 shows her concern that her garden grow and produce fruit (compare Song 1:6). If we do not care about our garden, which really belongs to Christ, we show that we do not care much about Christ whose garden we are.⚜
among the chariots of Amminadab 📖.
Friends
13 📚Come back, come back, O Shulamite!
Come back, come back, that we may
gaze at you.
6:13 We cannot be certain why the bride is called “Shulammite” here. The name was possibly derived from Solomon’s name in Hebrew – Shlomo. Shulammite could be the feminine form of that name and may indicate one who belonged to Solomon. Or it may possibly be derived from a town called Shulam (or, possibly, Shunem). The first part of this verse evidently is spoken by the friends or virgins who long to gaze on the grace and beauty of the bride. The second part of the verse is spoken by the bridegroom. It is in the form of a question but he knows very well her beauty and why others would gaze on her.⚜
Bridegroom
What do you see in the Shulamite?
As it were the dance of two camps 📖.