Bible Study

Song of Songs - Which is Solomon’s

Chapter 5:

The Groom speaks to the Bride, 

Verse 1a;   I have come into your habitat and enjoyed myself.   The Lord is pleased in our midst. God inhabits our praises.

To the friends of the wedding.

Verse 1b;   This is no doubt to the congregation.  That all present should rejoice.

The Bride reply’s. 

Verses 2-8;   This could be (and some do) interpreted as a dream in which the Bride is disturbed by the Groom’s absence.  She appears to suffer night sweats. She hears what she believes her groom at the door and ponders whether to get up, get dressed and chance of soiling her feet on the floor. Yet she does rise and goes to answer the door just to find no one there. She is again experiencing this longing for her groom similar to the events of chapter 3. She goes again inquiring as she goes to all she can saying;  “if you can tell me where he is or tell him I am looking for him.”  This time she appears to encounter resistance and even conflict in her search. (verse 7)

Verse 9;  The friends themselves is curious about this Groom the Bride describes.  What makes your Groom so special? 

Verse 10 – 16;  The Bride takes special and specific attention to explaining how her groom is so uniquely special in her descriptive praise of him.  All of us have a vision of Christ Jesus.  But truth is He is more special to some then others.  But no one will know the Groom is the intimate knowing of him possessed by the Bride.