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BOOK 22 OF 66 · WISDOM & POETRY · KING JAMES BIBLE

Song of Solomon 2

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Song of Solomon 2 Overview

The lovers celebrate beauty and belonging with garden and spring imagery; the beloved invites the woman to rise and come away, while repeated warnings urge that love not be stirred before its proper time.

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Before you read Song of Solomon 2

Coming from

Chapter 1 established mutual attraction and delight. Chapter 2 expands that affection through the renewal imagery of spring and the language of belonging to one another.

In this chapter

The lovers celebrate beauty and belonging with garden and spring imagery; the beloved invites the woman to rise and come away, while repeated warnings urge that love not be stirred before its proper time.

Leads into

Chapter 3 moves into longing and searching, then presents a public royal procession associated with Solomon and a wedding scene.

Key understandingExplore deeper

“The rose of Sharon” and “the lily of the valleys” occur in love poetry before the man compares his beloved to a lily among thorns. The text itself does not identify these botanical images as secret titles for Christ.

The refrain about not stirring or awakening love “till he please” recurs in the Song. The Hebrew wording is difficult in detail, but the repeated function is clear: powerful love should not be manipulated or prematurely aroused.

Major truths in this chapterExplore deeper

Love has an appropriate season

The refrain counsels restraint rather than forcing desire before its proper time.

Mutual belonging is central

“My beloved is mine, and I am his” expresses reciprocal relationship rather than possession by only one party.

Creation imagery heightens delight

Spring, flowers, birds, vines, and fragrance portray love as lively and life-giving.

Love must be protected

The “little foxes” threaten the vineyard, picturing the need to guard what can spoil a growing relationship.

Connections to the rest of ScriptureExplore deeper

Genesis 2:24

Mutual belonging in marriage fits the one-flesh covenant union established in creation.

1 Corinthians 7:3-4

Paul describes marriage in strikingly mutual terms, with husband and wife owing affection and bodily faithfulness to one another.

Proverbs 4:23

The call to keep the heart diligently provides a broad wisdom parallel to guarding love from destructive influences.

What is clear, and where care is neededExplore deeper

Do not make the “little foxes” a fixed list of hidden sins.

The image clearly concerns threats to the relationship; specific applications should be made modestly rather than claimed as the verse’s secret meaning.

Do not treat desire as either dirty or self-justifying.

The chapter celebrates desire while also emphasizing timing, restraint, and protection.

Read Song of Solomon 2 watching for…

springtime invitation

the repeated language of delight

“my beloved is mine”

the little foxes

the warning not to awaken love prematurely

TWBC REVIEW STANDARD

Plain language. Scripture first. Fact distinguished from inference. No filler. No fake certainty. Designed to help you read the Bible itself.

Chapter outline4 sections
1-2The woman describes herself and her beloved with images of beauty3-7She delights in her beloved’s presence and asks that love not be awakened too soon8-13The beloved comes and calls her to rise because the season has changed14-17The beloved asks to see and hear her, and the little foxes must be caught
1

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

2

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

3

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

4

He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

5

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

6

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

7

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

8

The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

9

My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

10

My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

11

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

12

The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

13

The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

14

O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.

15

Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

16

My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

17

Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.