Song of Solomon 6:13

"Return, return, O Shulamite;

Return, return, that we may look upon thee.

Why will ye look upon the Shulamite,

As upon the dance of Mahanaim?"

Cook read this as a call from the chorus for the bride to "come back," when "she was about to withdraw."[12] Delitzsch saw the passage as the words of the, "Daughters of Jerusalem."[13]

"Why should you look upon the Shulamite?" (Song of Solomon 6:13b). This has been read as a query from Solomon regarding the Shulamite's popularity in his harem, or as a modest protest by the Shulamite declining their admiration. We cannot find any connection at all with the rest of the Song. Bunn read the verse as an appeal, "By the shepherd and his companions for the return of the maiden (during the time when the king retained her in his harem), asking, "Why should she dance, and be looked upon by the monarch's company like a camp follower who danced before the lascivious eyes of the troops"?[14] The reader is invited to take his choice of interpretations. This is reasonable enough except for the chronological misplacement of it.