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 These style of writings were designed to be sung
with emotion.
 Songs and poetry was designed to be emotional.
• Moses and the children of Israel after the Red
sea.
• Deborah and children of Israel in Judges
• Hannah after the birth of Samuel
• Book of Psalms (palming)
 Modern day
• Sound of Music, Greece, Westside story,
High school musical
• Love songs (Our song)
• Weddings songs
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 The Title:
• The Song of Songs which is Solomon’s (vs.1)
• The Song of Solomon (KJV short hand)
• Lord of Lords, King of Kings ,Vanity of Vanities
• The best Song ever written
 The Author:
• The title alone makes obvious
• He is mentioned 7 times in the book.
• (1Ki 4:32) And he spake three thousand
proverbs: and his songs were a thousand
and five.
"The Song of Solomon is the
first of the five Megilloth, the
five scrolls read by the Jews at
various feasts: The Song of
Solomon (8th day Passover),
Ruth (Pentecost), Ecclesiastes
(Tabernacle), Esther (Purim),
and Lamentations
(anniversary of the destruction
of Jerusalem).
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 This is not a episode of an early soap opera or
skit or even a play. This is the story of a real living
couple and the way they meet
 There is a real Shulamite girl, that married the
King of Israel
 Now Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines;
therefore there is a lot of options
 What we know is that her only identity is from the
place of origin and that she is name less
 Maybe the Virtuous Women in Proverbs
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 Through the centuries we have lost our
knowledge of the customs of the marriage
ceremonies of the Kings in the east.
 Till the 1800’s when the discovery of ancient
records revealed the way a king’s wedding was
practice
 The wedding would last a total of 7 days and on
the 4th day the King and his bride would act out a
melodrama of there court ship. And it was never
in Chronologic order.
 But to the guest that know them it would make
since, by piecing it together
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 When these Melodramas were written down , it
would be a form of writing called “idylls”
 These “idylls”are poem, or more accurately
several short poems combined into one. An idyll
is a little picture. It is a short pictorial poem; a
short descriptive or narrative poem. The Song of
Solomon is not a consecutive story.
 With this in mind these lyric idylls may with
perfect decorum, pick on different parts of the
story, passing from the later to the earlier, without
restriction to the order of time.
 The other confusion is that the bride groom and
the bride are not the only people speaking or
singing. There are those that sing choruses
Description and
Misconception of the bride
(Son 1:5) I am black, but comely,
O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as
the tents of Kedar, as the curtains
of Solomon.
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Veiled women
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BIBLICAL BLACKNESS
 Gen. 9:25 the curse of Canaan
 Gen. 10:6 Ham has other Sons
These other sons include Cush which
includes Sheba and Dedan (Saudi Arabia)
Sin is seen I n the color of Red in the Bible
(Is.1:18)
(Mal 4:1) For, behold, the day cometh,
that shall burn as an oven; and all the
proud, yea, and all that do wickedly,
shall be stubble: and the day that
cometh shall burn them up, saith the
LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them
neither root nor branch.
(Mal 4:2) But unto you that fear my
name shall the Sun of righteousness
arise with healing in his wings; and ye
shall go forth, and grow up as calves of
the stall.
(Son 1:5) I am black, but comely,
O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as
the tents of Kedar, as the curtains
of Solomon.
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Veiled women
(Son 1:9) I have compared thee,
O my love, to a company of
horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
(Son 1:10) Thy cheeks are
comely with rows of jewels, thy
neck with chains of gold.
(Son 1:11) We will make thee
borders of gold with studs of
silver.
(Son 4:1) Behold, thou art fair, my
love; behold, thou art fair; thou
hast doves' eyes within thy locks:
thy hair is as a flock of goats, that
appear from mount Gilead.
(Son 4:3) Thy lips are like a
thread of scarlet, and thy speech
is comely: thy temples are like a
piece of a pomegranate within thy
locks.
(Eph 4:29) Let no corrupt communication
proceed out of your mouth, but that which is
good to the use of edifying, that it may minister
grace unto the hearers.
(Eph 4:30) And grieve not the holy Spirit of
God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of
redemption.
(Eph 4:31) Let all bitterness, and wrath, and
anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put
away from you, with all malice:
(Eph 4:32) And be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as
God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
(Son 4:3) Thy lips are like a
thread of scarlet, and thy speech
is comely: thy temples are like a
piece of a pomegranate within thy
locks.
(Ezr 9:5-6) And at the evening
sacrifice I arose up from my
heaviness; and having rent my
garment and my mantle, I fell upon
my knees, and spread out my hands
unto the LORD my God, And said, O
my God, I am ashamed and blush to
lift up my face to thee, my God: for
our iniquities are increased over
our head, and our trespass is grown
up unto the heavens.
(Jer 8:12) Were they ashamed when
they had committed abomination?
nay, they were not at all ashamed,
neither could they blush: therefore
shall they fall among them that fall:
in the time of their visitation they
shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
(Son 4:4) Thy neck is like the
tower of David builded for an
armoury, whereon there hang a
thousand bucklers, all shields of
mighty men.
(Isa 61:10) I will greatly
rejoice in the LORD, my
soul shall be joyful in
my God; for he hath
clothed me with the
garments of salvation,
he hath covered me with
the robe of
righteousness, as a
bridegroom decketh
himself with ornaments,
and as a bride
adorneth herself
with her jewels.
(Son 4:5) Thy two breasts are like
two young roes that are twins,
which feed among the lilies.
(Son 4:6) Until the day break, and
the shadows flee away, I will get
me to the mountain of myrrh, and
to the hill of frankincense.
(Son 4:7) Thou art all fair, my
love; there is no spot in thee.
(Son 4:9) Thou hast ravished my heart, my
sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart
with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy
neck.
(Son 4:10) How fair is thy love, my sister, my
spouse! how much better is thy love than wine!
and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
(Son 4:11) Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the
honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy
tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the
smell of Lebanon.
(Son 5:9) What is thy beloved
more than another beloved, O
thou fairest among women? what
is thy beloved more than another
beloved, that thou dost so charge
us?
(Son 6:8) There are threescore queens,
and fourscore concubines, and virgins
without number.
(Son 6:9) My dove, my undefiled is but
one; she is the only one of her mother, she
is the choice one of her that bare her. The
daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea,
the queens and the concubines, and they
praised her.
(Son 6:10) Who is she that looketh forth
as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as
the sun, and terrible as an army with
banners?
(Son 6:10) Who is she that looketh forth
as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as
the sun, and terrible as an army with
banners?
The moon effects the …
• Tides
• Hunting
• Planting
 The moon is always turning
in the opposition to the
world
The moon provides light to a
dark world