the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Song of Solomon 3:9
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King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chairFrom the timber of Lebanon.
"King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair From the timber of Lebanon.
Kyng Solomon had made him selfe a pallace of the wood of Libanus,
King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon.
Of the wood of LebanonSolomon the KingMade himself a palanquin: [fn]
King Solomon made himself a litter bed of the trees of Lebanon.
King Solomon made a traveling chair for himself. The wood came from Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a carriage Of the wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon made himselfe a charet of the wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
Kynge Salomon hath made himself a bedsteade of the wodd of Libanus,
"King Solomon has made for himself a palanquin From the [cedar] wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a palanquin Of the wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a bed of the wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon made a sedan chair for himself of wood imported from Lebanon.
The throne is made of trees from Lebanon.
King Shlomo made himself a royal litter of wood from the L'vanon.
King Salomon made himselfe a palace of the trees of Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a palace of wood of Lebanon.
King Shlomo made himself a carriage Of the wood of Levanon.
King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon's carriage is built of wood imported from Lebanon.
King Solomon has made for himself a beautiful wagon from the wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a litter of woods of Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a palanquin of the wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon has made his carriage out of the timber of Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a palanquin from the wood of Lebanon.
A palanquin, King Solomon made himself, of the trees of Lebanon:
King Solomon hath made him a litter of the wood of Libanus:
King Solomon made for himself a sedan chair from the wood of Lebanon.
King Solomon made himself a carriage from the wood of Lebanon.
"King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair From the timber of Lebanon.
King Solomon had a couch made for himself of wood from Lebanon.
King Solomon is carried on a throne made of the finest wood.
King Solomon made a sedan chair for himself with wood from Lebanon.
Kyng Salomon made to hym a seete, of the trees of Liban;
King Solomon made himself a palanquin from the wood of Lebanon.
A palanquin king Solomon made for himself, Of the wood of Lebanon,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a chariot: or, a bed, Appiryon, rendered by Montanus, sponsarum ithalamum, "a nuptial bed;" but probably it denotes a kind of palanquin, perhaps synonymous with the Arabic farfar, a species of vehicle for women. Song of Solomon 3:7, 2 Samuel 23:5, Revelation 14:6
Cross-References
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.
And Yahweh God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.
And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
in the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, until you return to the ground; for out of it were you taken: for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
And Yahweh God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins, and clothed them.
And Yahweh said to Cain, Where is Abel your brother? And he said, I don't know: am I my brother's keeper?
And Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of man built.
And he said, Hagar, Sarai's slave, where did you come from? and where are you going? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. The word translated chariot is only used in this place; some render it a bride chamber u; others a nuptial bed w, such as is carried from place to place; it is used in the Misnah x for the nuptial, bed, or open chariot, in which the bride was carried from her father's house to her husband's. The Septuagint render it by φορειον, a word near in sound to that in the Hebrew text, and was the "lectica" of the ancients, somewhat like our "sedan"; some of which were adorned with gold and precious stones, and had silver feet y, or pillars, as follows: it seems upon the whole to be the nuptial chariot in which, according to Pausanias z, three only were carried, the bride, who sat in the middle, then the bridegroom, and then the friend of the bridegroom: something of this kind is the "palki" or "palanquin" of the Indians, in which the bride and bridegroom are carried on the day of marriage on four men's shoulders a: and by this "chariot" may be meant either the human nature of Christ, in which he descended and ascended to heaven; or his church, in which he shows himself to his people in his ordinances, where he rides in triumph, conquering and to conquer, by his Spirit and grace, in his word; or the covenant of grace, in which Christ shows the freeness and sovereignty of his love in being the Mediator, surety, and messenger of it; and in which his people are bore up and supported under and carried through many trials and exercises in this life, and are brought triumphantly to heaven; or rather the Gospel, and the ministration of it, in which Christ shows himself as in a chariot, in the glory of his person, offices, grace, and love; in this he is carried up and down in the world, Acts 9:15; and by it is conveyed to the souls of men; and in it he triumphs over his enemies, and causes his ministers to triumph also: and he is the subject, sum, and substance of it, and the alone author of it; for he is the Solomon here spoken of that made it; it is not a device of men's, but a revelation of his, and therefore called "the Gospel of Christ"; and which he gives to men to preach, a commission to preach it, and qualifications for it: and this he does "for himself", to set forth the glories of his person and office, to display the riches of his grace, and to show himself to be the only way of salvation to host sinners: and this chariot being said to be "of the wood of Lebanon", cedar, which is both incorruptible and of a good smell; may denote the uncorruptness of the Gospel, as dispensed by faithful ministers, and the continuance and duration of it, notwithstanding the efforts of men and devils to the contrary; and the acceptableness of it to the saints, to whom is the savour of life unto life; and it being a nuptial chariot that seems designed, it agrees with the Gospel, in the ministry of which souls are brought to Christ, and espoused as a chaste virgin to him, 2 Corinthians 11:2.
u אפריון "thalamum sponsarum", Montanus. w So Schmidt, Marckius, David de Pomis, Kimchi in Sopher Shorash. rad. פרה & Ben Melech in loc. x Sotah, c. 9. s. 14. & Jarchi in ibid. y Vid. Alstorph. de Lecticis Veter. c. 3. z Vid. Suidam in voce ζευγος. a Agreement of Customs between the East Indians and Jews, artic. 17. p. 68.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The principal and central action of the Song; the bride’s entry into the city of David, and her marriage there with the king. Jewish interpreters regard this part of the poem as symbolizing the “first” entrance of the Church of the Old Testament into the land of promise, and her spiritual espousals, and communion with the King of kings, through the erection of Solomon’s Temple and the institution of its acceptable worship. Christian fathers, in a like spirit, make most things here refer to the espousals of the Church with Christ in the Passion and Resurrection, or the communion of Christian souls with Him in meditation thereon.
Song of Solomon 3:6-11
Two or more citizens of Jerusalem, or the chorus of youths, companions of the bridegroom, describe the magnificent appearance of the bride borne in a royal litter, and then that of the king in festive joy wearing a nuptial crown.
Song of Solomon 3:6
“wilderness” is here pasture-land in contrast with the cultivated districts and garden-enclosures round the city. Compare Jeremiah 23:10; Joel 2:22; Isaiah 42:11; Psalms 65:12.
Pillars of smoke - Here an image of delight and pleasure. Frankincense and other perfumes are burned in such abundance round the bridal equipage that the whole procession appears from the distance to be one of moving wreaths and columns of smoke.
All powders of the merchant - Every kind of spice forming an article of commerce.
Song of Solomon 3:7
Bed - Probably the royal litter or palanquin in which the bride is borne, surrounded by his own body-guard consisting of sixty mighties of the mighty men of Israel.
Song of Solomon 3:8
Because of fear in the night - i. e., Against night alarms. Compare Psalms 91:5.
Song of Solomon 3:9, Song of Solomon 3:10
A stately bed hath king Solomon made for himself of woods (or trees) of the Lebanon. The word rendered “bed” occurs nowhere else in Scripture, and is of doubtful etymology and meaning. It may denote here
(1) the bride’s car or litter; or
(2) a more magnificent vehicle provided for her reception on her entrance into the city, and in which perhaps the king goes forth to meet her.
It has been made under Solomon’s own directions of the costliest woods (ceda and pine) of the Lebanon; it is furnished with “pillars of silver” supporting a “baldachin” or “canopy of gold” (not “bottom” as in the King James Version), and with “a seat (not ‘covering’) of purple cushions,” while “its interior is paved with (mosaic work, or tapestry of) love from (not ‘for’) the daughters of Jerusalem;” the meaning being that this part of the adornment is a gift of love, whereby the female chorus have testified their goodwill to the bride, and their desire to gratify the king.
Song of Solomon 3:11
Daughters of Zion - So called here to distinguish them from the bride’s companions, who are always addressed by her as “daughters of Jerusalem.”
His mother - Bathsheba 1 Kings 1:11. This is the last mention of her in sacred history.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 9. Of the wood of Lebanon. — Of the cedar that grew on that mount. It is very likely that a nuptial bed, not a chariot, is intended by the original word אפיון appiryon. Montanus properly translates it sponsarum thalamum, a nuptial bed. It may, however, mean a palanquin.
