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Solomon's Song 3 Summary
Seeking the Beloved and Royal Procession
The bride seeks her beloved at night on her bed but cannot find him, so she rises and searches the city streets for him whom her soul loves. The watchmen find her and she asks if they have seen him. She then finds her beloved and brings him to her mother's house. She again charges the daughters of Jerusalem not to awake her beloved until he pleases. A magnificent procession appears from the wilderness, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with King Solomon's chariot made of Lebanon wood and adorned with silver pillars and gold base, surrounded by sixty valiant men skilled in war.
Key themes
Key verses
Solomon's Song 3:1
“By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.”
Solomon's Song 3:4
“It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.”
Solomon's Song 3:9
“King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.”
Solomon's Song 3:11
“Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.”
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