INgoma yazo iiNgoma 2:6

Izhibhalo Ezingcwele

6 Isandla sayo sokhohlo siphantsi kwentloko yam; Esokunene siyandiwola.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Song of Solomon 8:3-5, Isaiah 54:5-10, Isaiah 62:4, Isaiah 62:5, Jeremiah 32:41, Zephaniah 3:17, John 3:29, Ephesians 5:25-29

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 33:27 - underneath Psalms 63:8 - thy Ecclesiastes 3:5 - a time to embrace Luke 5:34 - the children

Gill's Notes on the Bible

His left hand [is] under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me. The church, having desired to be stayed, supported, strengthened, and comforted, presently found her beloved with her, who with both hands sustained her; which shows his tender love to her, care of her, and regard for her; and is expressive of the near and intimate communion she had with him, as the effect of union to him, often enjoyed in his house and ordinances; likewise of blessings of every kind she received from him; temporal, mercies, or left hand blessings, which are necessary to support and carry through this wilderness; and spiritual, or right hand blessings, as justification, pardon, adoption, c. and, moreover, may denote the safety and security of the church, being encircled in the arms of her beloved, sustained by Christ's left hand, and embraced by his right hand, out of whose hands none can pluck. Some read the words prayer wise, "let his left hand be", c. b still desiring further tokens of his love to her, and more and nearer communion with him: others read it in the future, "his left hand will be", c. c "his right hand shall embrace", c. expressing the strength of her faith that she should for the future enjoy his gracious presence and that he would support her, that she should not sink and faint.

b Tigurine version, some in Mercer. Marckius so Ainsworth. c V. L. Pagninus Montanus.

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.