Song of Solomon 2:8-10 ASV

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Song of Solomon 2:8

THE SHULAMITE'S LOVER COMES TO RESCUE HER"The voice of my beloved! Behold he cometh,Leaping upon the mountains,Skipping upon the hills.My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart:Behold, he standeth behind our wall;He looketh in at the windows;He glanceth through the lattice.""My beloved ... leaping upon the mountains ... skipping upon the hills" (Song of Solomon 2:8). This is not the picture of a king ordering one of his eunuchs to bring a new concubine to his bed. No indeed! This is the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Song of Solomon 2:10

HE CARRIES HER AWAY"My beloved spake, and said unto me,Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away.For, lo, the winter is past,The rain is over and gone;The flowers appear on the earth;The time of the singing of birds is come,And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land;The fig-tree ripeneth her green figs,And the vines are in blossom;They give forth their fragrance.Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.O my dove, thou art in the clefts of the rock,In the covert of the steep... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Song of Solomon 2:8

Song of Solomon 2:8. The second day's eclogue begins here, belongs wholly to the spouse, and is addressed by her in a continued narration to the chorus of virgins. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Song of Solomon 2:9

Song of Solomon 2:9. My beloved is like a roe, &c.— This should be connected more properly with the preceding verse. My beloved resembles a roe, &c. leaping and skipping upon the hills. The following part of this verse would be better rendered thus: Behold, he stood behind our wall; he looked in through the windows; he shewed himself through the lattice. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 2:8

8. voice—an exclamation of joyful surprise, evidently after a long silence. The restlessness of sin and fickleness in her had disturbed His rest with her, which she had professed not to wish disturbed "till He should please." He left her, but in sovereign grace unexpectedly heralds His return. She awakes, and at once recognizes His voice (1 Samuel 3:9; 1 Samuel 3:10; John 10:4); her sleep is not so sinfully deep as in John 10:4- :. leaping—bounding, as the roe does, over the roughest obstacles... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 2:9

9. he standeth—after having bounded over the intervening space like a roe. He often stands near when our unbelief hides Him from us (Genesis 28:16; Revelation 3:14-20). His usual way; long promised and expected; sudden at last: so, in visiting the second temple (Malachi 3:1); so at Pentecost (Acts 2:1; Acts 2:2); so in visiting an individual soul, Zaccheus (Luke 19:5; Luke 19:6; John 3:8); and so, at the second coming (Matthew 24:48; Matthew 24:50; 2 Peter 3:4; 2 Peter 3:10). So it shall be at... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 2:10

10, 11. Loving reassurance given by Jesus Christ to the bride, lest she should think that He had ceased to love her, on account of her unfaithfulness, which had occasioned His temporary withdrawal. He allures her to brighter than worldly joys (Micah 2:10). Not only does the saint wish to depart to be with Him, but He still more desires to have the saint with Him above (Micah 2:10- :). Historically, the vineyard or garden of the King, here first introduced, is "the kingdom of heaven preached" by... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Song of Solomon 2:1-17

1. She compares herself to a simple wild flower, the crocus (RM) of Sharon. The plain, which extended from Joppa to Cæsarea, was proverbial for its flowers (Isaiah 35:2), and travellers continue to revert to this feature: ’We constantly had reason to admire the faint harmonious colouring of the wild flowers on the untilled plain. Cæsarea was surrounded by fields of the yellow marigold. Other flowers were also conspicuous—the red pheasant’s eye, in some cases as big as a poppy; blue pimpernels,... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Song of Solomon 2:8-17

A Visit and an Invitation8-13 After an interval she relates one of his visits to her home. He comes swiftly and easily; hills and mountains are no obstacle. He stands behind the wall of her mother’s house, and she gazes at him through the lattice, for she has seen his approach from afar. The unglazed, latticed windows of an Oriental house admits air and a softened light, allow those within to see out, and prevent their being observed from outside. 10. He would have her accompany him to the open... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Song of Solomon 2:8

(8) The voice of my beloved.—So here there is no need of the clumsy device of supposing the heroine in a dream. This most exquisite morsel of the whole poem falls quite naturally into its place if we regard it as a sweet recollection of the poet’s, put into the mouth of the object of his affections. “The voice” (Heb., kôl), used to arrest attention = Hark! (Comp. Psalms 29:0) The quick sense of love discerns his approach a long way off. (Compare—“Before he mounts the hill, I knowHe cometh... read more

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Song of Solomon 2:8

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Song of Solomon 2:10

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Song of Solomon 2:8

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Song of Solomon 2:9

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 2:8

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 2:9

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Song of Solomon 2:10

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Song of Solomon 2:1-17

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Song of Solomon 2:8-17

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Song of Solomon 2:8

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