Song of Solomon 1:16

Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green. Reply of the Bride.

Thou art fair, my beloved. She presumes to call Him beloved, because He called her so first. Thou callest me "fair;" if I am so, it is not in myself, it is all from thee (); but thou art fair in thyself ().

Pleasant () - toward thy friends ().

Bed ... green - the couch of green grass on which the King and His bride sit to "rest at noon." Thus her prayer in is here granted. She finds Him, as she desired, in a green oasis in the desert, always found near waters in the East (; Isaiah 41:17). The scene is a kiosk, or summer-house. Historically, the literal resting of the Babe of Bethlehem and His parents on the green grass provided for cattle, (Luke 2:1.) Typically, the meeting of Moses and his destined bride, Zipporah, at the place of watering the flocks, in the beginning of the Old Testament Church's history. So in the "doves" () there may be an incidental allusion to the offering. So in the "cedar" and "fir" ceiling refers to the temple (1 Kings 5:6); type of the heavenly temple ().