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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Song of Solomon 8

Chapter 8

O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

that thou

Isaiah 7:14 9:6 Haggai 2:7 Zechariah 9:9 Malachi 3:1 Matthew 13:16,17 Luke 2:26-32,38 10:23,24 1 Timothy 3:16 Hebrews 2:11,12

sucked

Isaiah 66:11,12 Galatians 4:26

find thee

John 1:14 3:13 8:42 13:3 16:28 Hebrews 2:9-14 9:26-28

I would

1:2 Psalms 2:12 45:10,11 Luke 7:45-48 9:26 12:8 John 7:46-52 John 9:25-38 Galatians 6:14 Philippians 3:3,7,8

yea

Psalms 51:17 102:16,17 Mark 12:42-44 14:6-9

I should not be despised

Heb. they should not despise me.

Isaiah 60:14 Luke 10:16 18:9 1 Corinthians 1:28

I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.

bring

3:4 Galatians 4:26

who

Luke 16:29-31 John 5:39,46,47 Acts 17:11,12 2 Timothy 3:15 1 Peter 1:10-12 2 Peter 1:19 Revelation 19:10

I would cause

4:10-16 5:1 7:9,12

spiced

Proverbs 9:2

His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

2:6 Deuteronomy 33:27 Isaiah 62:4,5 2 Corinthians 12:9

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

charge

2:7 3:5

that ye stir not up, nor awake

Heb. why should ye stir up, or, why awake, etc.

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

Who is this

3:6 6:10

from the

4:8 Psalms 45:10,11 107:2-8 Isaiah 40:3 43:19 Jeremiah 2:2 Revelation 12:6

leaning

2 Chronicles 32:8 *marg:; Psalms 63:8 Isaiah 26:3,4 36:6 Micah 3:11 John 13:23 Acts 27:23-25 2 Corinthians 12:9,10 Ephesians 1:12,13 1 Peter 1:21

I raised

2:3 Hosea 12:4 John 1:48-51

there she

1 3:4,11 Isaiah 49:20-23 Romans 7:4 Galatians 4:19

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

as a seal

Exodus 28:9-12,21,29,30 Isaiah 49:16 Jeremiah 22:24 Haggai 2:23 Zechariah 3:9 2 Timothy 2:19

love

5:8 Psalms 42:1,2 63:1 84:2 John 21:15-19 Acts 20:24 21:13 2 Corinthians 5:14,15 Philippians 1:20-23 Revelation 12:11

jealousy

Numbers 5:14 25:11 Deuteronomy 32:21 Proverbs 6:34 2 Corinthians 11:2

cruel

Heb. hard. the coals.

Psalms 120:4 Proverbs 25:22 Romans 12:20

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

waters

Isaiah 43:2 Matthew 7:24,25 Romans 8:28-39

if a man

Proverbs 6:31,35 Romans 13:8-10

We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?

a little

Ezekiel 16:46,55,56,61 23:33 John 10:16 Acts 15:14-17 Romans 15:9-12

she hath

10 4:5 7:3 Psalms 147:19,20 Acts 7:38 Romans 3:1,2 Ephesians 2:12

what

Psalms 2:8 72:17-19 Isaiah 49:6 60:1-5,10,11 Acts 10:1-48 11:1-18 16:9 Acts 22:21 26:17,18 Romans 10:12-15 Ephesians 2:13-15,19-22

in the day

Luke 19:44 1 Peter 2:12

If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

a wall

2:9 Revelation 21:12-19

we will

Isaiah 58:12 60:17 61:4 Zechariah 6:12-15 Matthew 16:18 Acts 15:16 1 Corinthians 3:10-12 Ephesians 2:20-22

a door

Acts 14:27

I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.

a wall

my

4:5 7:3,4,7,8 Ezekiel 16:7

then

Genesis 6:8 Deuteronomy 7:7,8 Proverbs 3:4 Isaiah 60:10 Luke 1:30 Ephesians 1:6,8 1 Timothy 1:16

favour

Heb. peace.

Romans 5:1-10

Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

Solomon

Calmet thus translates these verses: "Solomon has a vineyard at Baal-hamon; he has let it out to keepers, each of whom for the fruit of it was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. As for me, my vineyard is before me; keep thyself, O Solomon, thy thousand pieces of silver," etc.

had a

7:12 Ecclesiastes 2:4 Isaiah 5:1-7 Matthew 21:33-43 Mark 12:1

he let

Luke 20:9-18

a thousand

Genesis 20:16 Isaiah 7:23

My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

vineyard

1:6 Proverbs 4:23 Acts 20:28 1 Timothy 4:15,16

thou

Psalms 72:17-19 Romans 14:7-9 1 Corinthians 6:20 2 Corinthians 5:15

those

1 Thessalonians 2:19 1 Timothy 5:17,18

Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

dwellest

2:13 4:16 6:2,11 7:11,12 Matthew 18:20 28:20 John 14:21-23

the companions

1:7 3:7-11 5:9-16 Judges 11:38 14:11 Psalms 45:14

cause

2:14 Psalms 50:15 John 14:13,14 15:7 16:24

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Make haste

Heb. Flee away.

2:17 Luke 19:12 Philippians 1:23 Revelation 22:17,20