Song 3 Commentary
Don’t Awaken Love Until It Pleases
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KEY THOUGHT: Do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases. [Song 3:5b NKJV]
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Song 3 NKJV
A Troubled Night
The Shulamite
3 By night on my bed I sought the one I love;
I sought him, but I did not find him.
2 “I will rise now,” I said,
“And go about the city;
In the streets and in the squares
I will seek the one I love.”
I sought him, but I did not find him.
3 The watchmen who go about the city found me;
I said,
“Have you seen the one I love?”
4 Scarcely had I passed by them,
When I found the one I love.
I held him and would not let him go,
Until I had brought him to the house of my mother,
And into the [a]chamber of her who conceived me.
5 I [b]charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the gazelles or by the does of the field,
Do not stir up nor awaken love
Until it pleases.
The Coming of Solomon
The Shulamite
6 Who is this coming out of the wilderness
Like pillars of smoke,
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
With all the merchant’s fragrant powders?
7 Behold, it is Solomon’s couch,
With sixty valiant men around it,
Of the valiant of Israel.
8 They all hold swords,
Being expert in war.
Every man has his sword on his thigh
Because of fear in the night.
9 Of the wood of Lebanon
Solomon the King
Made himself a [c]palanquin:
10 He made its pillars of silver,
Its support of gold,
Its seat of purple,
Its interior paved with love
By the daughters of Jerusalem.
11 Go forth, O daughters of Zion,
And see King Solomon with the crown
With which his mother crowned him
On the day of his wedding,
The day of the gladness of his heart.
Footnotes
a. Song of Solomon 3:4 room
b. Song of Solomon 3:5 adjure
c. Song of Solomon 3:9 A portable enclosed chair
New King James Version (NKJV)
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Song 3 Commentary
We have mothers in the picture. The woman brings the man to her mother. Then we have the mention of the crown on the man’s heard placed on him by his mother.
Of course, the thought is that mothers are kings in this department – the department of life and the processes that attend life.
A mother has everything to do with childbearing. “Everything” includes the environment of preconception, conception itself, infant care, feeding, protection, teaching, and training.
Her job never stops. We have seen her here placing the crown on the grown Solomon’s head. They usher the new couple into its procreation function.
Fathers are not mentioned because the mandate of childbearing weighs heavily on the woman’s side. It’s human culture that kitchens are women’s departments because they sustain life as per the mandate of Genesis.
Life buds from an environment of love. Love and not just sex. That’s God’s will. Something is faulty at the factory when love goes missing!
The first section looks into the longings of the married woman. The gap that the woman feels when her man is absent can be very strong. This is for men. Don’t be absent. She has her feelings. Then comes the warning. The young woman must not arouse love because it isn’t an easy dog to tame.
We could loosely translate “love” as sex and have the following instruction: Don’t arouse it unless it can be satisfied in a godly way – within the marriage context.
Don’t arouse it by what you see on the screen, or hear from bad songs. The saint is expected to stay away from materials, habits, or places that are likely to arouse love before its appropriate time.
“Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.” Verse 5.
This could be advice streaming from an experienced woman to the young women – the daughters of Jerusalem. But it can also be a situation where the young woman is fending off temptations from her peers. They should not mislead her into mistimed and sinful sex.
The second section appears as a moment of pride and admiration. The woman is all smiles as she sees her man approaching. Solomon’s kingly position is used to transmit expectations.
The New Testament saint knows a godly man sits in the position of a royal priest. It is a combination of kingly splendor and priestly holiness. Does the man display these qualities as he shows up at home?
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 1 Peter 2:9
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