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The Song of Songs (Shir HaShirim) is the supreme love poem of the OT — at once a celebration of marital eros and the richest OT metaphor for the covenant relationship between God and His people. Jewish tradition holds it the "holiest of the holy books."
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The Song of Songs (Shir HaShirim) is the supreme love poem of the OT — at once a celebration of marital eros and the richest OT metaphor for the covenant relationship between God and His people. Jewish tradition holds it the "holiest of the holy books."
The Song's canonical function is to restore the vision of human sexuality as designed by the Creator — not fallen, shameful, or commercial, but covenantal, celebratory, and ordered toward exclusive commitment. Its allegorical dimension (developed richly in both Jewish and Christian tradition) maps the intimacy of the covenant as the deepest frame for understanding love.
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SongofSolomon 8:1
Hebrew
מִי יִתֶּנְךָ כְּאָח לִי יוֹנֵק שְׁדֵי אִמִּי אֶֽמְצָאֲךָ בַחוּץ אֶשָׁקְךָ גַּם לֹא־יָבוּזוּ לִֽי׃miy-yitenekha-khe'ach-liy-yvoneq-shedey-'imiy-'emetza'akha-vachvtz-'eshaqekha-gam-lo'-yavvzv-liy
KJV: O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
AKJV: O that you were as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find you without, I would kiss you; yes, I should not be despised.
ASV: Oh that thou wert as my brother,
YLT: Who doth make thee as a brother to me, Sucking the breasts of my mother? I find thee without, I kiss thee, Yea, they do not despise me,
Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:1 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
SongofSolomon 8:2
Hebrew
אֶנְהָֽגֲךָ אֲבִֽיאֲךָ אֶל־בֵּית אִמִּי תְּלַמְּדֵנִי אַשְׁקְךָ מִיַּיִן הָרֶקַח מֵעֲסִיס רִמֹּנִֽי׃'enehagakha-'aviy'akha-'el-veyt-'imiy-telamedeniy-'asheqekha-miyayin-hareqach-me'asiys-rimoniy
KJV: I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
AKJV: I would lead you, and bring you into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
ASV: I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house,
YLT: I lead thee, I bring thee in unto my mother's house, She doth teach me, I cause thee to drink of the perfumed wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate,
Commentary WitnessSongofSolomon 8:2Quoted commentary witness
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SongofSolomon 8:2
Verse 2 Would - bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me - She would teach me how to conduct myself towards thee, as she would how to nurse a young child. To drink of spiced wine - Wine rendered peculiarly strong and invigorating. The bride and bridegroom on the wedding day both drank out of the same cup, to show that they were to enjoy and equally bear together the comforts and adversities of life.
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Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:2 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
SongofSolomon 8:3
Hebrew
שְׂמֹאלוֹ תַּחַת רֹאשִׁי וִֽימִינוֹ תְּחַבְּקֵֽנִי׃shemo'lvo-tachat-ro'shiy-viymiynvo-techaveqeniy
KJV: His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
AKJV: His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
ASV: His left handshould beunder my head,
YLT: His left hand is under my head, And his right doth embrace me.
Commentary WitnessSongofSolomon 8:3Quoted commentary witness
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SongofSolomon 8:3
Verse 3 His left hand - See on Sol 2:6 (note). With the fourth verse the Sixth night of the marriage week is supposed to end.
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Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:3 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
SongofSolomon 8:4
Hebrew
הִשְׁבַּעְתִּי אֶתְכֶם בְּנוֹת יְרוּשָׁלָ͏ִם מַה־תָּעִירוּ ׀ וּֽמַה־תְּעֹֽרְרוּ אֶת־הָאַהֲבָה עַד שֶׁתֶּחְפָּֽץ׃hisheva'etiy-'etekhem-venvot-yervshalaim-mah-ta'iyrv- -vmah-te'orerv-'et-ha'ahavah-'ad-shetechefatz
KJV: I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
AKJV: I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
ASV: I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
YLT: I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How ye stir up, And how ye wake the love till she please!
Commentary Witness (Generated)SongofSolomon 8:4Generated editorial synthesis
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SongofSolomon 8:4
SongofSolomon 8:4 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:4 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
SongofSolomon 8:5
Hebrew
מִי זֹאת עֹלָה מִן־הַמִּדְבָּר מִתְרַפֶּקֶת עַל־דּוֹדָהּ תַּחַת הַתַּפּוּחַ עֽוֹרַרְתִּיךָ שָׁמָּה חִבְּלַתְךָ אִמֶּךָ שָׁמָּה חִבְּלָה יְלָדַֽתְךָ׃miy-zo't-'olah-min-hamidevar-miterafeqet-'al-dvodah-tachat-hatafvcha-'voraretiykha-shamah-chivelatekha-'imekha-shamah-chivelah-yeladatekha
KJV: Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
AKJV: Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I raised you up under the apple tree: there your mother brought you forth: there she brought you forth that bore you. ¶
ASV: Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness,
YLT: Who is this coming from the wilderness, Hasting herself for her beloved? Under the citron-tree I have waked thee, There did thy mother pledge thee, There she gave a pledge that bare thee.
Commentary WitnessSongofSolomon 8:5Quoted commentary witness
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SongofSolomon 8:5
Verse 5 That cometh up from the wilderness - Perhaps the words of the daughters of Jerusalem, who, seeing the bride returning from the country, leaning on the arm of her beloved, are filled with admiration at her excellent carriage and beauty. I raised thee up under the apple tree - The original of this clause is obscure, and has given birth to various translations. The following is nearly literal: "Under the apple tree I excited thee (to espouse me): there, thy mother contracted thee; - there, she that brought thee forth contracted thee (to me). Or it may be understood of the following circumstance: The bridegroom found her once asleep under an apple tree, and awoke her; and this happened to be the very place where her mother, taken in untimely labor, had brought her into the world." And here the bridegroom, in his fondness and familiarity, recalls these little adventures to her memory. The Vulgate gives this an abominable meaning. Sub arbore malo suscitavi te: ibi corrupta est mater tua; ibi violata est genetrix tua; "I raised thee up under the apple tree: it was there that thy mother was corrupted; it was there that she who brought thee forth was violated." Spiritually, all this is applied to Eve losing her purity by sin; and Jesus as the promised seed raising her up by the promise of mercy, through the blood of his cross. But the text says nothing of this.
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SongofSolomon 8:5
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- Jesus
- Jerusalem
- Spiritually
Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:5 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
SongofSolomon 8:6
Hebrew
שִׂימֵנִי כַֽחוֹתָם עַל־לִבֶּךָ כַּֽחוֹתָם עַל־זְרוֹעֶךָ כִּֽי־עַזָּה כַמָּוֶת אַהֲבָה קָשָׁה כִשְׁאוֹל קִנְאָה רְשָׁפֶיהָ רִשְׁפֵּי אֵשׁ שַׁלְהֶבֶתְיָֽה׃shiymeniy-khachvotam-'al-livekha-khachvotam-'al-zervo'ekha-khiy-'azah-khamavet-'ahavah-qashah-khishe'vol-qine'ah-reshafeyha-rishefey-'esh-shaleheveteyah
KJV: Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
AKJV: Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which has a most vehement flame.
ASV: Set me as a seal upon thy heart,
YLT: Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings are burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!
Commentary WitnessSongofSolomon 8:6Quoted commentary witness
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SongofSolomon 8:6
Verse 6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart - It was customary in the Levant and other places to make impressions of various kinds upon the arms, the breast, and other parts. I have seen these often: some slight punctures are made, and the place rubbed over with a sort of blue powder that, getting between the cuticle and cutis, is never discharged; it continues in all its distinctness throughout life. The figures of young women are frequently thus impressed on the arms and on the breasts. If the bride alludes to any thing of this kind, which is very probable, the interpretation is easy. Let me be thus depicted upon thine arm, which being constantly before thy eyes, thou wilt never forget me; and let me be thus depicted upon thy breast, the emblem of the share I have in thy heart and affections. Do this as a proof of the love I bear to thee, which is such as nothing but death can destroy; and do it to prevent any jealousy I might feel, which is as cruel as the grave, and as deadly as fiery arrows or poisoned darts shot into the body. A most vehement flame - שלהבתיה shalhebethyah, "the flame of God;" for the word is divided שלהבת יה shalhebeth Yah, "the flame of Jehovah," by one hundred and sixteen of Dr. Kennicott's MSS., and by one hundred and fourteen of those of De Rossi. It may mean the lightning; or, as our text understands it, a most vehement or intense fire.
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- Yah
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- Dr
- De Rossi
Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:6 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
SongofSolomon 8:7
Hebrew
מַיִם רַבִּים לֹא יֽוּכְלוּ לְכַבּוֹת אֶת־הָֽאַהֲבָה וּנְהָרוֹת לֹא יִשְׁטְפוּהָ אִם־יִתֵּן אִישׁ אֶת־כָּל־הוֹן בֵּיתוֹ בָּאַהֲבָה בּוֹז יָבוּזוּ לֽוֹ׃mayim-raviym-lo'-yvkhelv-lekhavvot-'et-ha'ahavah-vneharvot-lo'-yishetefvha-'im-yiten-'iysh-'et-khal-hvon-veytvo-va'ahavah-vvoz-yavvzv-lvo
KJV: Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
AKJV: Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be scorned. ¶
ASV: Many waters cannot quench love,
YLT: Many waters are not able to quench the love, And floods do not wash it away. If one give all the wealth of his house for love, Treading down--they tread upon it.
Commentary WitnessSongofSolomon 8:7Quoted commentary witness
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Verse 7 Many waters - Neither common nor uncommon adversities, even of the most ruinous nature, can destroy love when it is pure; and pure love is such that nothing can procure it. If it be not excited naturally, no money can purchase it, no property can procure it, no arts can persuade it. How vain is the thought of old rich men hoping to procure the affections of young women by loading them with presents and wealth! No woman can command her affections; they are not in her power. Where they do not rise spontaneously, they can never exist. "If a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be utterly contemned." Let the old, as well as the gay and the giddy, think of this.
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Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:7 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
SongofSolomon 8:8
Hebrew
אָחוֹת לָנוּ קְטַנָּה וְשָׁדַיִם אֵין לָהּ מַֽה־נַּעֲשֶׂה לַאֲחֹתֵנוּ בַּיּוֹם שֶׁיְּדֻבַּר־בָּֽהּ׃'achvot-lanv-qetanah-veshadayim-'eyn-lah-mah-na'asheh-la'achotenv-vayvom-sheyeduvar-vah
KJV: We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
AKJV: We have a little sister, and she has no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
ASV: We have a little sister,
YLT: We have a little sister, and breasts she hath not, What do we do for our sister, In the day that it is told of her?
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SongofSolomon 8:8
Verse 8 We have a little sister - This young girl belonged most probably to the bride. She hath no breasts - She is not yet marriageable. What shall we do for our sister - How shall we secure her comfort and welfare? In the day when she shall be spoken for? - When any person shall demand her in marriage.
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Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:8 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
SongofSolomon 8:9
Hebrew
אִם־חוֹמָה הִיא נִבְנֶה עָלֶיהָ טִירַת כָּסֶף וְאִם־דֶּלֶת הִיא נָצוּר עָלֶיהָ לוּחַ אָֽרֶז׃'im-chvomah-hiy'-niveneh-'aleyha-tiyrat-khasef-ve'im-delet-hiy'-natzvr-'aleyha-lvcha-'arez
KJV: If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
AKJV: If she be a wall, we will build on her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
ASV: If she be a wall,
YLT: If she is a wall, we build by her a palace of silver. And if she is a door, We fashion by her board-work of cedar.
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Verse 9 If she be a wall - All these expressions, says Calmet, show that it was necessary to provide a husband for this young sister. For a woman without a husband is like a wall without towers, and without defense; is like a gate or door without bar or lock; and like a city without walls. They must therefore provide for their sister a rich, powerful, and illustrious man; qualities here figured by towers or palaces of silver, and doors of cedar. As it is customary to build towers upon a wall, and to put bolts and bars upon a door in order to secure it, so the expressions may point out the defense, protection, and guardianship which they imagined this young woman to require.
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- Ovid
- Calmet
Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:9 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
SongofSolomon 8:10
Hebrew
אֲנִי חוֹמָה וְשָׁדַי כַּמִּגְדָּלוֹת אָז הָיִיתִי בְעֵינָיו כְּמוֹצְאֵת שָׁלֽוֹם׃'aniy-chvomah-veshaday-khamigedalvot-'az-hayiytiy-ve'eynayv-khemvotze'et-shalvom
KJV: I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
AKJV: I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favor.
ASV: I am a wall, and my breasts like the towersthereof
YLT: I am a wall, and my breasts as towers, Then I have been in his eyes as one finding peace.
Commentary WitnessSongofSolomon 8:10Quoted commentary witness
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SongofSolomon 8:10
Verse 10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers - I am become marriageable, and I stood in need of the defense I have now in my beloved; and as soon as I was so, and became pleasing in the eyes of my beloved, I was given to him in marriage, and have ever since found favor in his sight. As soon then as my sister is in my state, let a proper match be sought out for her. These expressions show the solicitude which the bride felt for her sister, and in her favor she wishes to interest her spouse.
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Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:10 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
SongofSolomon 8:11
Hebrew
כֶּרֶם הָיָה לִשְׁלֹמֹה בְּבַעַל הָמוֹן נָתַן אֶת־הַכֶּרֶם לַנֹּטְרִים אִישׁ יָבִא בְּפִרְיוֹ אֶלֶף כָּֽסֶף׃kherem-hayah-lishelomoh-veva'al-hamvon-natan-'et-hakherem-lanoteriym-'iysh-yavi'-vefireyvo-'elef-khasef
KJV: Solomon had a vineyard at Baal–hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
AKJV: Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
ASV: Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
YLT: Solomon hath a vineyard in Baal-Hamon, He hath given the vineyard to keepers, Each bringeth for its fruit a thousand silverlings;
Commentary WitnessSongofSolomon 8:11Quoted commentary witness
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SongofSolomon 8:11
Verse 11 Solomon had a vineyard - Calmet translates and paraphrases the Hebrew of these two verses thus: "Sol 8:11 : Solomon has a vineyard at Baal-hamon: he has let it out to keepers, each of whom for the fruit of it was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. Sol 8:12 : As for me, my vineyard is before me; that is, it is my own; I am its proprietor. Keep thyself, O Solomon, thy thousand pieces of silver, and let those who dress (thy vineyard) have two hundred for their trouble. I neither envy thee thy vineyard, nor them their profits. I am satisfied with my own. My beloved is my vineyard - my heritage; I would not change him for all the riches of the universe." Some suppose that there is a reference here to some property which Pharaoh had given to Solomon with his daughter. See Harmer's Outlines, where this subject is considered at large.
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Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:11 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Solomon had a vineyard at Baal–hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
SongofSolomon 8:12
Hebrew
כַּרְמִי שֶׁלִּי לְפָנָי הָאֶלֶף לְךָ שְׁלֹמֹה וּמָאתַיִם לְנֹטְרִים אֶת־פִּרְיֽוֹ׃kharemiy-sheliy-lefanay-ha'elef-lekha-shelomoh-vma'tayim-lenoteriym-'et-fireyvo
KJV: My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
AKJV: My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
ASV: My vineyard, which is mine, is before me:
YLT: My vineyard--my own--is before me, The thousand is for thee, O Solomon. And the two hundred for those keeping its fruit. O dweller in gardens!
Commentary Witness (Generated)SongofSolomon 8:12Generated editorial synthesis
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SongofSolomon 8:12
SongofSolomon 8:12 advances the immediate literary flow of the chapter and should be interpreted in its canonical context, not as an isolated proof text. In the present translation it reads: 'My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.'. A close Hebrew reading supports attention to key lexical choices, clause movement, and redemptive-historical placement so doctrinal conclusions remain textually grounded.
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- Solomon
Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:12 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
SongofSolomon 8:13
Hebrew
הַיוֹשֶׁבֶת בַּגַּנִּים חֲבֵרִים מַקְשִׁיבִים לְקוֹלֵךְ הַשְׁמִיעִֽינִי׃hayvoshevet-vaganiym-chaveriym-maqeshiyviym-leqvolekhe-hashemiy'iyniy
KJV: Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
AKJV: You that dwell in the gardens, the companions listen to your voice: cause me to hear it. ¶
ASV: Thou that dwellest in the gardens,
YLT: The companions are attending to thy voice, Cause me to hear. Flee, my beloved, and be like to a roe,
Commentary WitnessSongofSolomon 8:13Quoted commentary witness
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SongofSolomon 8:13
Verse 13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens - This is supposed to refer to the bridegroom asking permission of his spouse early in the morning to retire, as was his usual custom. He intimates the companions were waiting to hear, and he wished to hear it in the way of permission to depart.
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Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:13 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
SongofSolomon 8:14
Hebrew
בְּרַח ׀ דּוֹדִי וּֽדְמֵה־לְךָ לִצְבִי אוֹ לְעֹפֶר הָֽאַיָּלִים עַל הָרֵי בְשָׂמִֽים׃ 117 8 4 4verach- -dvodiy-vdemeh-lekha-litzeviy-'vo-le'ofer-ha'ayaliym-'al-harey-veshamiym
KJV: Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
AKJV: Make haste, my beloved, and be you like to a roe or to a young hart on the mountains of spices.
ASV: Make haste, my beloved,
YLT: Or to a young one of the harts on mountains of spices!
Commentary WitnessSongofSolomon 8:14Quoted commentary witness
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SongofSolomon 8:14
Verse 14 Make haste, my beloved - These appear to be the words of the bride giving permission, but entreating him to speed his return. What these mountains of spices were, we cannot particularly tell; but they must have been thus named from their producing the trees on which the spices grew. They might have been the same as the mountains of Bether, Sol 2:17 (note), or the mountains of myrrh, Sol 4:6 (note); where see the notes. Here ends the seventh night of the marriage week. Thus ends this most singular book; the oldest pastoral in the world, if it may be ranked among this species of writing. To whatever species of composition it belongs, it is, beyond all controversy, the finest, the most sublime for imagery and colouring, that ever came from the pen of man. In the preceding notes I have carefully avoided all attempts to spiritualize this song. My reasons I have already given in the introduction; and in the course of writing these short notes I have seen no cause to alter my opinion. Any man may allegorize it; that is an easy matter; for when he once considers it to be an allegory, his own creed will furnish him with enough to say, write, or preach, upon the spiritual meanings of every part, which will be an exhibition of his own confession of faith! But when he has finished his work, the question will recur, By what authority do you give it these meanings? And till the day of judgment none shall be able to say, "I have the authority of God for my exposition."
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Named authorities or texts detected in the witness
- Bether
Exposition: SongofSolomon 8:14 emphasizes a key movement in the chapter's argument. In KJV form, the text reads: 'Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.'. Read in canonical context, the verse supports the coherence of biblical revelation by linking doctrine, narrative, and covenantal meaning.
Apologetics Notes
- Scientific Correlation: This verse is suitable for cumulative-case reasoning in apologetics: historical context, textual stability, and worldview coherence are evaluated together rather than in isolation.
- Hebrew Grammar: A close Hebrew reading should attend lexical range, clause flow, and discourse function in context; these controls reduce over-reading and preserve authorial intent.
- Historical Evidence: Historically, this verse is interpreted within the received canonical tradition, where manuscript continuity and early community usage support stable transmission and meaning.
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- SongofSolomon 8:1
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- SongofSolomon 8:4
- SongofSolomon 8:5
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SongofSolomon 8:1
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