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Song of Songs 1:3

Arguing from the lesser messiah to the Greater.  From the lesser name of above all others to the Greater Name above all other names.  Matt. 12:42

The Name of Jesus is above the “name” Solomon.  Above in that Jesus was both God and man.  Two natures in one fully human fully divine person.  God put on flesh.  Therefore seemingly opposite but excellent character qualities are seen to be most glorious when compared one to another.  Lets look at some Seemingly contradictory characteristics in the same person of the Son of God and Son of Man.   His name is like perfume poured out.

Infinite Highness and infinite condescension.

Infinite Justice and infinite Grace

Infinite Glory and infinite humility

Greatest Majesty and lowest Meekness

Reverence toward God, yet Equality with Him

Worthy of infinite good, yet displayed the greatest patience when suffering evil.

Christ the Son of God was Self-sufficient, yet had entire trust and reliance on God.

Obeyed yet was the Supreme King of Kings

Greatest Love to God and love to sinners in one act of dying on the cross.

He is God’s Son, His one and only Son, the image of the invisible God, the exact representation of His Nature.  And also fully man, born of a woman, the Word that was with God and was God put on flesh and dwelt among us and the disciples beheld His Glory, full of Grace and Truth.

Jesus Christ the Messiah, Fulfilled the prophecies of the O.T.

God the Father gave His Son a sinful bride, Christ accepted the bride and paid the ransom price to redeem her from a life of sin and its punishment.

“Hosanna to the Son of David!” “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!” “Hosanna in the highest heaven!”  Mat. 21:9

We are to not use the Lord’s name not in vain.  If you take the name of Christ and call yourself a Christian you must act like one or don’t take His name in vain upon yourself.

No greater Love was ever on display then when He died to make His enemies His friends.

This love surpasses our knowledge and gives us a joy inexpressible and full of glory!

Jesus is King of Kings and Lord of Lord, The King to whom peace belongs, Prince of Peace. “God exalted him to the highest place
    and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
    in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
    to the glory of God the Father.”  Phil. 2:19-11

Solomon’s name when mention would be pleasing to all who heard it.  All of who a person is and what they have done goes into their name.  So who was Solomon and what did you do as king, priest, prophet, husband and shepherd.  At the mention of his name people would think.  Imagine if it was you.  You were an Israelite at war with your enemies your whole life.  Destroying them and them trying to destroy you.  Like living in current 2017 Afghanistan or Israel and Iraq.  There will always be fighting until the messiah comes.

1. Solomon how sweet the name for he is the Son of David
2. Solomon what a name, he is Israels promised messiah, anointed one.
3. Solomon what a name, he sat on the throne of God as king and ruled from Jerusalem 2 Chronicles 9:8
4. The name Solomon, like perfume poured out. His name meant “king to whom peace belongs”.  Solomon lived up to this name like no other. Solomon was superlative in this way.  He was king of kings due to his wisdom and also king of peace.  He made peace with all the nations.  During Solomons reign Israel experienced their promised peace like never before.  The land was flowing with milk and honey.  Solomon reigned during the greatest time of peace and prosperity both physically and spiritually for Israel so far. 1 Kings 4:25  When God came down to dwell with man in the temple then there was peace throughout the earth.
5. Solomon has unmeasurable wisdom.  His name is like perfume poured out.
6. The the Solomon would remind you of a boy who prayed for wisdom rather than riches.  He was a great example til sometime after 1 kings 9:25 and at the time of ( 1 Kings 11)near the end of his reign.  Up until then Solomon’s name was like perfume poured out as in Song 1:3.   So far as others are concerned Solomon’s name is like perfume poured out.  He is wise, holy and loving, the chief among ten thousand.
7. He made wise business agreements with Hiram 1 Kings 5:7
8. When you heard the name “Solomon” you would be reminded of a boy who at a very young age, by the wisdom God gave Solomon, figured out who the real mother of a baby was.
9. Solomon, the name meant “Gods beloved son.”  Jedidiah 2 Sam. 12:25 with Matthew 3:17
10. His army was the best and most experienced in battle.  Inherited by his father.  2 Sam. 21:15ff. 1 Chronicles 29:24 and Solomon commanded them all.
11. Solomon blessed the world.  He even overpaid on his trade deal with Sheba .  His trade agreements extended throughout the world.
12. The magnificent glory of his government and its officials is recorded in 1 Kings 4. the government of the nations was on his shoulders as if it was no burden at all.
13. The glory of Solomon’s name shines even brighter when you try to calculate how rich he was.  Everything was gold and the most expensive wood was used.
14. Nothing was lacking at the Kings table.  The best of the best wines and spices and elegant food galore!!  1 Kings 4:27
15. Great Things God promised would come true during his reign started coming true 1 Kings 8:9,20  Life was becoming more like paradise again, but with a righteous king over all the nations.
16. Psalm 72 is as far as I know it a prophecy of the time when Solomon would reign written about the time of his death.  Righteousness flourished and there was an abundance of peace 72:7

Solomon in Psalm 72

Psalm 72  

(v 20) suggests that the psalm was read in later times as a prayer of David for his son [vol. 20, p. 223] and successor, Solomon. The psalm is a prayer that the Davidic hopes and expectations be fulfilled in his descendants

Of Solomon.

Can imagine what the bride is thinking of Solomon.  She heard of Solomon, There are many things in the Song that David said “Solomon will”  and others were prayer requests “May” is said over 15x.  But all of it came true!!  Solomon fulfilled prophecy by his father David.   When the bride in the Song says Solomon’s name was like perfume poured out.  It pleased her to hear his name because he was Israels messiah had and would have a name above all others 1 kings 3:13.

So we are to find out everything that went into the “name” of the king mentioned in Song 1:2-4 then argue from the lesser king to the Greater King Jesus and His reign on Earth.

The glory of God in the face of Solomon.

God is the ultimate authority.  God is the highest authority.  God in Christ is King of kings.  Solomon, the greatest type of Christ was only king of kings.  But still, how Solomon ruled was strikingly similar to how God will rule in Christ in Jerusalem during the millennial kingdom.

Solomon is God’s representative on earth as Adam was supposed to be and as every husband is as the authority in the marriage and ruler of the earth.  The husband is to reflect the sovereignty and authority of God in the relationship.  Hence in the Song we are reminded that the bride was married to a king.  The wife is to submit to her king.  The wife is to submit to her husband as unto the Lord.  As if it was Christ asking her to do  something.  In this way the glory of God’s authority is on display.  Same as God’s authority over Jesus was on display when His Son put on flesh and dwelt among humans.

How would his wife gain knowledge of God by Solomon’s life?

More thoughts on the topic “name”

Song 1:2-4 has a focus on the king.  Solomons roles as a King.  His name was like perfume poured out.”  Solomon was a type of Christ, particularly in wisdom Mat 12:42.  The name Solomon would remind her of the greater Messiah.  No one fit the description of the messiah better than Solomon did so far? Yes or No.

Moses would have been close.  Moses was the most humble of men.  Moses sure did a matchless job of intercession for His people.  Moses was a great prophet.  But Jesus Christ is not only a High priest, Prophet he is also a King and Husband.  In one day Solomon offered more sacrifices than any one else.  The value of the blood of the messiah/substitute increases with each sacrifice.

‘Tis unreasonable to think otherwise, than that the first foundation of a true love to God, is that whereby he is in himself lovely, or worthy to be loved, or the supreme loveliness of his nature. This is certainly what makes him chiefly amiable. What chiefly makes a man, or any creature lovely, is his excellency; and so what chiefly renders God lovely, and must undoubtedly be the chief ground of true love, is his excellency. God’s nature, or the divinity, is infinitely excellent; yea ’tis infinite beauty, brightness, and glory itself.

Song 1:3  “Your Name is like perfume poured out.”

Simplified truth

1. It gives me great pleasure meditating and thinking about Name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.  Because of Who He was and His atoning work at the cross, His sacrifice, that one act of obedience is a pleasing aroma to God and us, His bride.
2. It makes me happy to think of you as Savior and Anointed One.
3. All of who Christ is and what He have done is pleasing to me when I think of Him, the thoughts and feelings are like perfume poured out, pleasing to the spiritual needs of my soul, therefore I delight to sit in His shade and His fruit is sweet to my taste.
4. Jesus Christ the Son of God, 100% God and 100% man, Perfect, Lovely, free from all evil, holy, holy, holy, no one like you, “The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness and truth; 7 who keeps lovingkindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the children and on the grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.” Ex. 34:5-7

Quotes

Pulpit commentary  “Yedidyah. The word is formed from the same root as David, that is, “lovely,” with the addition of the Divine name. As we have already pointed out, this was no slight matter, but the virtual selection of Solomon to be David’s successor, and probably, therefore, was delayed until he had given indication of his great intellectual gifts. His elder brothers would not be passed over without valid reasons.”

Solomon had a good name up until the time he went after false God’s at the end of his life. You can read all about it in the whole chapter of 1 Kings 11.

Jonathan Edwards’ blank bible notes.   Who her beloved is and what He does for her are all wrapped up in a “name”  His name was like perfume poured out Song 1:3.

Here the Bride describes her beloved to the daughters of Jerusalem.  She is going to describe the character and qualifying attributes of her beloved that makes him stand above other beloveds.  The bride gives her answer in Song of Songs 5:10-16

Song of Songs 5:10

“White and ruddy” (or red).] His whiteness represents his infinite holiness and perfect righteousness. His being red represents the great sufferings and extreme trials under which his righteous and most excellent virtue was manifested. It may also signify his incarnation. The word is אָדוֹם, a word of the same derivation as Adam, man.

Song 5:11

“His locks are bushy, and black as a raven.”] Christ’s perfect age is set forth, Revelation 1:14, by his hair’s being “white like wool, as white as snow,” or perfectly white. And here his perfect youth is set forth by his hair’s being “black as a raven,” or perfectly black. Christ hath both perfect age and perfect youth, the perfect bloom and vigor of youth through eternity, or an everlasting youth. He was properly represented with that which signified his age in Revelation 1, where he appears in the quality of a ruler and judge, the great Alpha and Omega Canticles 5:8]. Here when he is spoken of as a bridegroom, he is most properly represented with that which signifies the perfection of youth. See SSS.1

“His head is as the most fine gold.” This probably represents Christ’s divine nature. The head of Christ is God, says the Apostle. Gold seems to have been made use of to signify Christ’s divinity or divine dignity before. Canticles 3:10, see note. See SSS on Canticles 3:1.2

(  This is me just thinking out loud.  The idea of flourishing could be here as well.  Psalm 92: 13-16 states: “The righteous flourish like the palm tree”

(The wrath of God was being made know quite clearly.   Black is Wrath, wavy is like a palm tree, now if you have a waving branch in great winds and it survives this is a strong healthy branch.  Strength and valor are His.  or

His peacemaking skills shone in abundance.  This was her beloved and her friends crowning attribute.  King to whom peace belongs.  Hair crowns the head.  What is His crowning characteristic.  King of peace!?  Was it, I think so.

So we have youthful strength, king of peace, crowning characteristic, ability to bring about peace between God and man.  God comes to dwell with man.  The palm branch stand victorious against any wind.)

Song 5:12

“Rivers of water,” when spoken of mystically, and concerning things holy and divine in Scripture, are perhaps universally put for the Holy Spirit, its influences and fruits. This expression therefore denotes Christ’s receiving the Spirit not by measure, and thence divining infinite holiness, and sweet love, and grace as it were appearing in his eyes, which “are as the eyes of a dove,” pure and loving. SSS.3

Song of Songs 5:13

“His lips are like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.”] Here in the description of Christ’s lips, as of several other parts of his body, is signified the mixture of holiness and grace that there is in Christ. His lips’ being as lilies represents the purity and holiness of his gospel, not in the least countenancing or encouraging sin; and their “dropping sweet smelling myrrh” represents the grace of Christ to sinners manifested in the gospel.

Song of Songs 5:14

“His belly is as bright ivory,” etc.] See “Scripture,” no. 489.4

“His belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.” The word5 translated “belly” signifies bowels, and the same word is so translated, Canticles 5:4. And so it signifies Christ’s mercy and love. The glory of Christ’s grace and love consists in two things. 1. That his mercy is perfectly pure and holy, represented by his bowels being “as bright ivory.” 2. By its being so gentle and so great, seeking such great benefits, so high a happiness for the beloved, on this account his belly is represented as “overlaid with sapphires,” a precious stone of the color of the sky, one of the mildest of the colors, and the color of the heavens, representing Christ’s mercy being exceeding sweet, mild, and gentle, and that it is so great it seeks nothing less than heavenly glory and blessedness for the beloved. See “Scripture,” no. 489.6 And see SSS.7

“His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl.” “Great men had their hands adorned with gold rings set with precious stones. But in the church’s eye, Christ’s hands themselves were as gold rings set with precious stones. All the instances of his power, the works of his hands, all the performances of his providence and grace, are all rich, and pure, and precious as gold.” (Henry.)8 By Chambers’ account, the beryl is like the crystal, but only partakes of a green color. Crystal may properly represent purity and holiness, and green, divine grace and beauty, giving life and joy, as the beams of the sun in the spring, covering the earth with a vivid joyful green. Holiness and grace are wonderfully connected in Christ’s works, in the work of redemption, in all parts of it.9

Song of Songs 5:15

“His countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.”] Signifying the mixture of majesty and grace. Lebanon was a great mountain, which mountains are an appearance in nature that exhibits great majesty. The cedars of Lebanon, also being so very great and high, had a majesty in their appearance. But by their being so fair and flourishing, of so beautiful a green, they exhibited an amiable image of that divine grace which is mild and gentle, and gives life and joy.

“His legs are as pillars of marble, set on sockets of fine gold.” Gold seems in this book pretty often to be used to represent Christ’s divinity, or the infinite dignity of his person. See notes on Canticles 2:10 and Canticles 5:11. Christ, in the office of our mediation, and in the character of our prophet, priest, king, spiritual husband of the church, etc., stands on the foundation of his divinity, and his infinite dignity and sufficiency consisting therein. ‘Tis by his standing on this that he stands so strong. Or these “sockets of fine gold,” which are the foundation on which his feet stand, may represent the preciousness and perfect excellency of the ground of the divine proceedings in his providence. It may be observed that in all that is divine, the foundation is represented as peculiarly precious. The foundation of the temple was of precious stones. So the foundations of the New Jerusalem and its streets, the ground on which the inhabitants went, were precious stones and pure gold. In the bridegroom’s chariot (Canticles 3:9), “the bottom thereof was of gold” Canticles 3:10]. See also Isaiah 54:11 and Isaiah 28:16. All that belongs to, or can properly be called, the foundation of the divine proceedings in his providence, especially the proceedings of Christ as our Savior in the work of redemption, whether those perfections or divine dispositions that move him or dispose him to do what he does, or the chief motives and supreme end, is perfectly pure and infinitely excellent.

Did Solomon have a sinful character?

1.  With his many wives?

Answer:  Yes, at the end of his life.  1 Kings 11:4  None of Solomon’s sinful life is recorded in the Song of Songs, unless you take the trio view and see Solomon in the Song as a bad guy.

As far as the bride knows Solomon, it is enough that it draws her closer.  His “name” was like perfume poured out.  Now if Solomon were evil, then the mention of his name would not be pleasing.

1.  With having many horses?  The king was to not have many horses.  Solomon had the most and best of horses.  The point here is that a king if he trusted God in battle then you wouldn’t have to many horses.  The king was to not put his trust in the quality and quantity of horses or chariots they had in order for the win in battle.  Their trust was to be in the LORD and His promises of victory against the enemies.  Solomon had no desire for riches, yet God gave it to him anyway
2.   Flattering the bride away from her shepherd lover.  Solomon is not flattering the bride, he is complimenting her character in Song 1:9 and many other places in the Song.  A husband is supposed to praise what is praiseworthy and comment on what he adores about his wife and what he see’s of value that makes her precious to him.  Proverbs. 31:28-30
3.  Solomon worshipped other God’s,  yes at the end of his life. 1 Kings 11:4  The Song of Songs was either written without Solomon’s sins in it or the bride in the Song was his first wife.

‘Tis unreasonable to think otherwise, than that the first foundation of a true love to God, is that whereby he is in himself lovely, or worthy to be loved, or the supreme loveliness of his nature. This is certainly what makes him chiefly amiable. What chiefly makes a man, or any creature lovely, is his excellency; and so what chiefly renders God lovely, and must undoubtedly be the chief ground of true love, is his excellency. God’s nature, or the divinity, is infinitely excellent; yea ’tis infinite beauty, brightness, and glory itself. But how can that be true love of this excellent and lovely nature, which is not built on the foundation of its true loveliness? How can that be true love of beauty and brightness, which is not for beauty and brightness’ sake? How can that be a true prizing of that which is in itself infinitely worthy and precious, which is not for the sake of its worthiness and preciousness? This infinite excellency of the divine nature, as it is in itself, is the true ground of all that is good in God in any respect; but how can a man truly and rightly love God, without loving him for that excellency in him, which is the foundation of all that is in any manner of respect good or desirable in him? They whose affection to God is founded first on his profitableness to them, their affection begins at the wrong end; they regard God only for the utmost limit of the stream of divine good, where it touches them, and reaches their interest; and have no respect to that infinite glory of God’s nature, which is the original good, and the true fountain of all good, the first fountain of all loveliness of every kind, and so the first foundation of all true love.