the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Song of Solomon 2:4
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He escorts me to the banquet hall; it's obvious how much he loves me.
He brought me to the banqueting-house, And his banner over me was love.
He brought me to the banquet room, and his banner over me is love.
The Beloved about Her Lover:
He brought me into the banquet hall, and he looked at me lovingly.He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me [was] love.
He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.
"He has brought me to his banqueting place, And his banner over me is love [waving overhead to protect and comfort me].
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
The king ledde me in to the wyn celer; he ordeynede charite in me.
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
He has brought me to the banquet hall, and his banner over me is love.
You led me to your banquet room and showered me with love.
He brought me to the banqueting-house, And his banner over me was love.
He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.
He brings me to the banquet hall; his banner over me is love.
He hath brought me to the house of wine, And his banner over me is love.
My lover took me to the wine house; his intent toward me was love.
He hath brought me to the banqueting-house, and his banner over me is love.
Hee brought me to the banketting house, and his banner ouer mee, was loue.
He brought me to his special large room for eating, and his colors over me were love.
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his intention toward me was love.
Hee brought mee into the wine cellar, and loue was his banner ouer me.
He brought me to the banqueting house, and assigned as my portion love.
He brought me to his banquet hall and raised the banner of love over me.
He hath brought me into the house of wine, and, his banner over me, is love.
He brought me into the cellar of wine, he set in order charity in me.
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
My delight is to sit vnder his shadowe, for his fruite is sweete vnto my throte.
Bring me into the wine house; set love before me.
He brought me to the banquet hall,and he looked on me with love.
He brought me to the banquet hall. His banner over me is love.
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
He brought me to the house of the wine, and his intention was love toward me.
He brought me to the house of wine, and His banner over me was love.
He hath brought me in unto a house of wine, And his banner over me [is] love,
He bryngeth me in to his wyne seller, and loueth me specially well.
"He has brought me to his banquet hall, And his banner over me is love.
"He has brought me to his banquet hall, And his banner over me is love.
He has brought me to his house of banqueting,And his banner over me is love.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
brought: Song of Solomon 1:4, Song of Solomon 5:1, Psalms 63:2-5, Psalms 84:10, John 14:21-23, Revelation 3:20
banqueting house: Heb. house of wine, Song of Solomon 1:1, Song of Solomon 1:4, Esther 7:7
his banner: Song of Solomon 6:4, Job 1:10, Psalms 60:4, Isaiah 11:10, John 15:9-15, Romans 5:8-10, Romans 8:28-39
Reciprocal: Job 29:5 - the Almighty Psalms 84:2 - soul Song of Solomon 1:2 - thy love
Cross-References
Genesis 2:4-9; Job 38:4-11; John 1:1-5">[xr] In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished.
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
1 Chronicles 1:1-4; Luke 3:36-38">[xr] This is the book of the genealogy of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.
1 Chronicles 1:5-27">[xr] Now this is the genealogy of the sons of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And sons were born to them after the flood.
1 Chronicles 1:17-27; Luke 3:34-36">[xr] This is the genealogy of Shem: Shem was one hundred years old, and begot Arphaxad two years after the flood.
1 Chronicles 1:29-31">[xr] Now this is the genealogy of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's maidservant, bore to Abraham.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He brought me to the banqueting house,.... Or "into" it q. The "house of wine" r, as it is literally in the original; either the "wine cellar" s, as some, where stores of it were kept; or, the "place of fasting" t, as others, and, as we render it, a "banqueting house"; where it was distributed and drank; a banquet of wine being put for a feast, and here the nuptial feast; and may design the Gospel feast in the house of God, where there is plenty of the wine of Gospel truths, and provisions of rich food, with which believers are sweetly refreshed and delightfully regaled: and to be brought hither, under the drawings and influences of divine grace, is a special privilege, a distinguishing layout; and show a great condescension in Christ, the King of kings, and Lord of lords, to take his people by the hand, as it were, and introduce them into his house, so well furnished, and to a table so well spread: and so the church relates it as an instance of divine favour, and as a fresh token of Christ's love to her; which further appears by what follows: the covenant of grace and the Scriptures of truth may be thought of as a banqueting house, well stored with blessings, and promises, and rich provisions; which, to be led and let into, is a singular kindness;
and his banner over me [was] love; signifying, that she was brought into the banqueting house in a grand, stately, and majestic manner, with flying colours; the motto on which inscribed was "love"; the allusion may be to the names of generals being inscribed on the banners of their armies; so Vespasian's name was inscribed on the banners throughout his armies u. Christ's name, inscribed on his, was "love", his church's love; and by which his company or band was distinguished from all others, even by electing, redeeming, calling love. It may signify the security and protection of the saints, while in the house of God, and enjoying communion with him, being under the banner of love, with which they are encompassed as a shield; and it may denote the very manifest and visible displays of it, which the church now experienced.
q אל "in", Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Marckius, Michaelis. r בית היין "domum vini", Pagninus, Montanus, &c. s "Cellam vinariam", Tigurine version. t "Locum convivii", Junius & Tremellius. u Suetonii Vita Vespasian. c. 6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The bride’s answer: “As the ‘tappuach’ with its fragrant fruit excels the barren trees of the wild wood, so my beloved his associates and friends etc.” תפוח tappûach may in early Hebrew have been a generic name for apple, quince, citron, orange etc.
Song of Solomon 2:4
His banner - As the standard is the rallying-point and guide of the individual soldier, so the bride, transplanted from a lowly station to new scenes of unaccustomed splendor, finds support and safety in the known attachment of her beloved. His “love” is her “banner.” The thought is similar to that expressed in the name “Jehovah-nissi” (see the Exodus 17:15 note).
Song of Solomon 2:5
Flagons - More probably cakes of raisins or dried grapes (2 Samuel 6:19 note; 1 Chronicles 16:3; Hosea 3:1). For an instance of the reviving power of dried fruit, see 1 Samuel 30:12.
Song of Solomon 2:6
Render as a wish or prayer: “O that his left hand were under my head, and that his right hand did embrace me!” Let him draw me to him with entire affection. Compare Deuteronomy 33:27; Proverbs 4:8.
Song of Solomon 2:7
Render: “I adjure you ... by the gazelles, or by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up nor awaken love until it please.” The King James Version, “my love,” is misleading. The affection or passion in itself, not its object, is here meant. This adjuration, three times significantly introduced as a concluding formula (marginal references), expresses one of the main thoughts of the poem; namely, that genuine love is a shy and gentle affection which dreads intrusion and scrutiny; hence the allusion to the gazelles and hinds, shy and timid creatures.
The complementary thought is that of Song of Solomon 8:6-7, where love is again described, and by the bride, as a fiery principle.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Song of Solomon 2:4. He brought me to the banqueting house — Literally, the house of wine. The ancients preserved their wine, not in barrels or dark cellars under ground, as we do, but in large pitchers, ranged against the wall in some upper apartment in the house, the place where they kept their most precious effects. We have a proof of this in HOMER: -
Ως φαν· ὁ δ' ὑψοραφον θαλομον κατεβησατο πατρος
Ευρυν, ὁθι νητος χρυσος και χαλκος εκειτο,
Εσθης τ' εν χηλοισιν, ἁλις τ' ευωδες ελαιον.
Εν δε πιθοι οινοιο παλαιου ἡδυποτοιο
Εστασαν, ακρητον θειον ποτον εντος εχοντες,
Ἑξειης ποτε τοιχον αρηροτες· ειποτ' Οδυσσευς
Οικαδε νοστησειε, και αλγεα πολλα μογησας.
Κληΐσται δ' επεσαν σανιδες πυκινως αραρυιαι,
Δικλιδες· εν δε γυνη ταμιη νυκτας τε και ημαρ
Εσχ', κ. τ. λ.. Od. lib. ii., ver. 337.
Meantime the lofty rooms the prince surveys,
Where lay the treasures of th' Ithacian race.
Here, ruddy brass and gold refulgent blazed;
There, polished chests embroider'd vestures graced.
Here, pots of oil breathed forth a rich perfume;
There, jars of wine in rows adorn'd the dome.
(Pure flavorous wine, by gods in bounty given,
And worthy to exalt the feasts of heaven.)
Untouch'd they stood, till, his long labours o'er,
The great Ulysses reach'd his native shore.
A double strength of bars secured the gates;
Fast by the door wise Euryclea waits, &c.
POPE.
