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E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Song of Solomon 2:13

putteth forth = sweetens or ripens. with the tender grape = blossoms. give = they give. my love = friend. Hebrew. ra'yah, as in Song of Solomon 2:2 . See note on Song of Solomon 1:9 . Feminine. Showing that the shepherd is speaking to the Shulamite. read more

James Burton Coffman

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

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Song of Solomon 2:11

Song of Solomon 2:11. The winter is past— One part of the winter is distinguished from the rest of it by the people of the East, in the latitude in which Solomon lived, on account of the severity of the cold. At Aleppo it lasts about forty days, and is called by the natives maurbanie. I would propose it to the consideration of the learned, whether the word סתיו setaiv, here used and translated winter, may not be understood to mean what the Aleppines express by the term maurbanie. It occurs... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Song of Solomon 2:13

Song of Solomon 2:13. The fig-tree putteth forth, &c.— The fig-tree giveth sweetness to her green figs. The fig-trees in Judaea bear double crops, the first of which is ripe in spring. פגיה paggeiha, signifies the unripe fig. The word חנט chanat, which we render putteth forth, properly signifies to preserve with aromatics. By a metaphor it is applied to fruits, and implies to maturate or sweeten. Several of the versions, both ancient and modern, read the vines in blossom, instead of the... 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

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