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Ps 14:1 *title

Verse 1. "The song of songs" - Solomon's intimate love song, which has the design of a Near Eastern love poem. According to 1 Kings 4:32, Solomon wrote 3000 proverbs and 1005 songs. Who is the Shulammite? Perhaps she is Abishag, the Shunammite (1 Kings 1:3-4, 15). What is the purpose of this love story? To guide Christian men and women, in all facets of courtship and marriage. The story begins with two who are in love and ends in marriage. No thought is left hidden, no secret desire left unknown. This book was written to conceptualize God's approach to love and the bond of attraction between a man and a woman. To allegorize this book as a love story between Christ and his bride, seems to ignore the most important intent and design.

Verse 1. The song of songs - A song of peculiar excellence. See the Introduction. The rabbins consider this superior to all songs. TEN songs, says the Tarpon, have been sung; but this excels them all. 1. The first was sung by Adam when his sin was pardoned. 2. The second was sung by Moses and the Israelites at the Red Sea. 3. The third was sung by the Israelites when they drank of the rock in the wilderness. 4. The fourth was sung by Moses when summoned to depart from this world. 5. The fifth was sung by Joshua when the sun and moon stood still. 6. The sixth was sung by Deborah and Barak after the defeat of Sisera. T. The seventh was sung by Hannah when the Lord promised her a son. 8. The eighth was sung by David for all the mercies given him by God. 9. The ninth is the present, sung in the spirit of prophecy by Solomon. 10. The tenth is that which shall be sung by the children of Israel when restored from their captivities. See the Targum. _________________________________________________

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