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 Shulamite's true lover striding over the hills of Judea, scaling a wall, looking through the windows to find his beloved!

"He standeth behind our wall" (Song of Solomon 2:9). To be in front of a wall would be to stand on the outside of it, approaching it. The shepherd lover of the Shulamite found his way inside the wall that guarded the harem, found his lover's window, and was looking in at it! What an amazing development!