Song of Solomon 3:6-11

Solomon Arrives for the Wedding

6 ¹What is that coming up from the wilderness like ²columns of smoke, perfumed with ³myrrh and frankincense, with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?

7 Behold, it is the litter^[a] of Solomon! Around it are ⁴sixty ⁵mighty men, some of the mighty men of Israel,

8 all of them wearing swords and expert in war, each with his ⁶sword at his thigh, against ⁷terror by night.

9 King Solomon made himself a carriage^[b] from the wood of Lebanon.

10 He made its posts of silver, its back of gold, its seat of purple; its interior was inlaid with love by ⁸the daughters of Jerusalem.

11 Go out, O ⁹daughters of Zion, and look upon King Solomon, with the crown with which his mother crowned him on ¹⁰the day of his wedding, on the day of the gladness of his heart.

Song of Solomon 3:6-11 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SONG OF SOLOMON 3

In this chapter an account is given of an adventure of the church, in quest of her beloved; of the time when, and places where, and the persons of whom she sought him; and of her success upon the whole; with a charge she give to the daughters of Jerusalem, So 3:1-5; by whom she is commended, So 3:6; and then Christ, her beloved, is described by her; by his bed, and the guard about it, So 3:7,8; by the chariot he rode in, So 3:9,10; and by the crown he wore on his coronation day, So 3:11.

Cross References

• 1. Song of Songs 8:5; [Song of Songs 6:10; Isaiah 60:8]
• 2. Exodus 13:21; Joel 2:30
• 3. Song of Songs 4:6, 14; Matthew 2:11; John 19:39
• 4. Song of Songs 6:8
• 5. 2 Samuel 23:8; 1 Chronicles 11:10
• 6. Psalms 45:3
• 7. Psalms 91:5
• 8. See Song of Songs 1:5
• 9. Isaiah 3:16, 17; Isaiah 4:4
• 10. [Isaiah 62:5]

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, the couch on which servants carry a king
• [b]. Or sedan chair