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Song of Solomon 2:4
He brought me to the banqueting-house, the apartment set apart for the drinking of wine, the banquet-hall, and His banner over me was love, which protected and comforted her at all times.
He brought me to the banqueting-house, the apartment set apart for the drinking of wine, the banquet-hall, and His banner over me was love, which protected and comforted her at all times.
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...
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...
CHAPTER 2 The voice of the bride is heard again in the opening verses of this chapter; some understand it as meaning the Messiah speaking of Himself as the Rose and the Lily of the valley, but it is r...
MUTUAL PRAISE AND PRAISE OF LOVE. The bride sets herself forth as the Rose (_meadow saffron_ or _crocus_) of Sharon (or _the plain_) and the Lily (_scarlet anemone?_) of the valley. To this the lover...
BANQUETING HOUSE. vine-arbour or vineyard-bower. HIS BANNER OVER ME WAS LOVE. he overshaded me with love; _degel,_ from _dagal,_ to shade; then an ensign because of the shade it gives and protection...
Song of Solomon 1:9 Chap. Song of Solomon 2:7. A King's Love despised In this scene Solomon presses his love upon the Shulammite for the first time; but in reply to his endeavours to win her she alwa...
In these verses the Shulammite replies, but turns her thoughts away from her royal lover to her betrothed, and compares him as contrasted with other young men to a fruitful and shady _tappûach_tree am...
_He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love_ Such expressions as -banqueting house" and -his banner" suggest a regal magnificence which could not belong to any kindness or...
HE BROUGHT ME TO THE BANQUETING-HOUSE— _O bring me into the banqueting-house: spread the banner of love over me._ I rather choose, with the LXX, to translate the word in the imperative mood, because b...
TEXT 1:152:6 c. Description of a conversation between the Shepherd and the Shepherdess, Song of Solomon 1:15 to Song of Solomon 2:6. Dialogue: Shepherd, Song of Solomon 1:15
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. HE BROUGHT ME TO THE BANQUETING HOUSE - Hebrew, 'house of wine.' Historically fulfilled in the joy of Simeon and Anna in the...
THE ARDENT AFFECTION OF THE LOVERS 2-7. Songs of the bride: her enquiry and his answers....
He has brought her to a 'house of wine' (RM), a place of feasting and enjoyment, where the banner floating over them was not merely inscribed with the word Love, but was Love, itself. The entire descr...
1. She compares herself to a simple wild flower, the crocus (RM) of Sharon. The plain, which extended from Joppa to Cæsarea, was proverbial for its flowers (Isaiah 35:2), and travellers continue to re...
BANQUETING HOUSE. — Marg., _house of wine;_ not the cellar of the palace, nor the banqueting hall of Solomon, nor the vineyard, but simply the place of the delights of love. The comparison of love wit...
הֱבִיאַ֨נִי֙ אֶל ־בֵּ֣ית הַ יָּ֔יִן וְ דִגְלֹ
TRUE LOVE TESTED SONG OF SOLOMON 1:1; Song of Solomon 2:1; Song of Solomon 3:1; Song of So
No Book has been provocative of more controversy than this. The question at issue is as to its place and value in Holy Scripture. While there are different varieties of each, the interpretations may b...
Cellar. This was not under ground. Homer (Odyssey b. 237.) places the wine near the nuptial bed. (Calmet) --- In me. Hebrew, "he brought me to the banquetting-house, and his banner over me was love....
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love. Various have been the opinions of pious men, what is meant by this banqueting house of Jesus. Some have supposed it to mean the...
The first six Verses (omitting the second) of chapter 2 (Song of Solomon 2:1; Song of Solomon 2:3-6) appear to me to be the voice of the bride. They have been differently understood, but (I think) wro...
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...
_He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me [was] love._ Ver. 4. _He brought me to the banqueting house._] Heb., To the house of wine, where he giveth me that which is better than...
_He brought me to the banqueting-house_ The places in which believers received the graces and blessings of Christ. _His banner over me_ By the lifting up whereof I was invited to come to him, and to l...
BANQUETING HOUSE: _ Heb._ house of wine...
1-7 Believers are beautiful, as clothed in the righteousness of Christ; and fragrant, as adorned with the graces of his Spirit; and they thrive under the refreshing beams of the Sun of righteousness....
BANQUETING-HOUSE, Heb. _house of wine_, or, by a common synecdoche, of feasting. By which he understands the places in which, or the means and instruments by which, believers receive the graces and bl...
Song of Solomon 2:4 brought H935 (H8689) banqueting H3196 house H1004 banner H1714 love H160 brought -...
_ “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. He brought me to the banqueting-...
Song of Solomon 2:4 In estimating the blessedness of any creature, you must never forget that there is a certain faculty of enjoyment which is itself the gift of God. And have we not here at once the...
Here we have a dialogue of love between the Lord Jesus and his people. Song of Solomon 2:1. _I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys._ Amongst all flowers, there is none that can be com...
Song of Solomon 2:1. _I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters._ It is the nature of love to make the thing beloved like itsel...
Song of Solomon 2:1. _I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys._ So he is, and much more than that. «Nature, to make his beauties known, Must mingle colors quite unknown.» So rich is h...
We believe that this song sets forth the mutual love of Christ and his believing people. It is a book of deep mystery, not to be understood except by the initiated; but those who have learnt a life of...
CONTENTS: The Bridegroom speaks concerning himself and his Bride. The Bride speaks remembering her satisfaction in her beloved. CHARACTERS: Solomon, Bride (Christ, Church). CONCLUSION: Humble souls...
Song of Solomon 2:1. _Sharon_ was a fertile district not far from Nazareth. 1 Chronicles 27:29; Isaiah 33:9; Isaiah 65:10....
_He brought me to the banqueting house, and His banner over me was love._ THE CHRISTIAN’S POSITION OF PRIVILEGE It is a great thing to be a Christian. It is a great thing in view of the personal chan...
NOTES Song of Solomon 2:4: _His banner over me was love_. ‘His banner,’ דִּגְלוֹ (_diglo_), from דֶּגֶל (_degel_), a military standard. The SEPTUAGINT and VULGATE read the word as a verb; the former...
EXPOSITION SONG OF SOLOMON 2:2 AS A LILY AMONG THORNS, SO IS MY LOVE AMONG THE DAUGHTERS. The king responds, taking up the lovely simile and giving it a very apt and charming turn, "My love is beyond...
I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys (Song of Solomon 2:1). The bridegroom responds. As the lily among the thorns, so is my love among the daughters (Song of Solomon 2:2). The bride...
Esther 7:7; Isaiah 11:10; Job 1:10; John 14:21; John 15:9;...
Banquetting house — The places in which believers receive the graces and blessings of Christ. His banner — By the lifting up whereof I was invited to come to him, and to list myself under him. Love —...