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Bible study · Song of Solomon 3:1-11

Song of Solomon 3: Whom my soul loves

Read Song of Solomon 3:1-11 before you meet.

In a few lines

Chapter 3 never says beloved: four times in 3:1-4 the one sought is "him whom my soul loves". And the WEB's two carriages are two Hebrew words: in 3:7 mittah, a word for a bed, and in 3:9 appiryon, which the Hebrew Bible has only here.

The verse to carry

“I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.”

Song of Solomon 3:4

To talk about

  1. 1. In 3:1-4 the speaker says "him whom my soul loves" four times, and "I sought him, but I didn’t find him" twice (3:1, 3:2). What does the repeating do as you read the search?

  2. 2. "I will get up now, and go about the city" (3:2). What in 3:1-4 shows how much the search mattered to the speaker?

  3. 3. 3:6-11 opens with "Who is this who comes up from the wilderness" (3:6) and ends with "Go out, you daughters of Zion, and see King Solomon" (3:11). What do these verses ask their hearers to look at, and what stands out to you?

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