Her lover is better than any other lover.  Compare them and her beloved stands out among 10,000 other lovers. The Song of Songs.  A love Song that is superlative in its ability to communicate love to the whole heart.  The lover in the Song of Songs is the best husband to have ever lived.  His love is superlative in nature compared to other lovers. Song 5:9

Song of Solomon 5:9 (KJV)  “What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?”

When the greater beauty is understood the affections are moved proportionate to

In the text we have the daughters of Jerusalem find the bride absent her husband and in great distress and enduring unbearable lovesickness, she desires his/His presence and its in through deeper yearning and longing for him that her love grows.

In the context of Song 5:9-10 It certainly doesn’t look and feel like she is sensing His love or enjoying His presence, come Lord Jesus come, come messiah and reverse the curse is the cry of her heart. God wanted her to open the door for her husband and she starting to regret her laziness in answering to late.  It feels like separation and your beloved is gone 5:6, it feels like you have lost all your comfort in 5:7, and hope seems to far away to grasp then think highly and true about Solomon the lesser Christ and argue from the lesser to the greater Christ Matt. 12:42 and now you get a better understanding of the greatest Lover of our Souls Jesus Christ.

Solomon is a superlative lover and the daughters of Jerusalem want to know what it is about him that makes his love so desirable to experience.  The bride is love sick when they ask her to describe her beloved.

The daughters of Jerusalem still know the bride to be the most beautiful among women!

Brother’s and sisters, there are times when we have blown it.  We have sinned.  We didn’t obey as soon as we should.  We have been lazy in our walk with God and you started to feel his displeasure against your sinful behavior but you kept on going in your sin.  Your sins have separated you from your God, so that he does not hear your prayer.  “You call out to Him but he does not answer.” Song 5:6   It is through witnessing to other’s about Christ and our cultivating thoughts of how Christ is the best lover that is the way and meditation that will produce fruit and beauty humbly “down” in his garden Song 6:2 then Solomon praises her character again in 6:4 all the way to 6:10 the bride is praised and admired for her beauty and love and she stays humble under this great praise.  See the “down” in 6:11, 6:2 and 4:8.  She needs to come down from her spiritual high high.  I mean their are heights or levels of enjoyment of Christ that seem to be constant all day and then there are some more special visits are we converse throughout the day.   But then there are those intimate times alone with the Lord.  No one around and maybe even late at night or some other time set aside for only you and our Lord.  And that time alone is what we think is the best ever!!  And it may go on for hours, yet you don’t feel our experience this all day, we must come down from the mountain tops where pride of lions are and humble ourselves by remembering and having balanced thoughts.  “Dark am I, yet lovely in Christ.”

Chapter 4 starts with Solomon praising his wife’s moral excellencies on their wedding day, then showing her her inheritance, she stays humble and comes down at His calling her, her love and obedience ravishes his heart.  Solomon is delighted with every area of her life, she is His, he is her king/King.  There is no flaw in her and she is altogether lovely. They enjoy one of the most intimate times together thus far.  They enjoy one another to their hearts content.  “Drink you fill of love.”  Drink your fill is the heights point in Scripture I believe in the Christian life.  Imagine…. You have pretty much cleaned up your whole life and now you only have pride to keep on killing.

She get the praises and honor from Solomon which God wanted Solomon to give to her so it is written.  Solomon praises her for everything she learned from Song 5:2-6:2.  She learned to respond quicker to her conscience, to stay witnessing and keep high thoughts about the one that loves/Loves us to keep us humble and producing fruit for our king in his/His garden.  In the middle of her recovery from her not enjoying his/his presence is the bride getting her mind back on higher thoughts of her lover/Lover.  So she tells the daughters of Jerusalem about why her lover/lover is better than any other lover in Song 5:10-16.  By the way guys, this is the description you want your wife to make about you.  Strive to be like Solomon in marriage so that your wife thinks highly of who you are in Christ!

Her husband king came home and knocked on a locked door and she contemplates opening the door.  What gets her out of her spiritual slumber is a slight view of her beloved, but it’s to late.  He leaves a token of His love there for her but it’s not what she wanted she wanted him not his myrrh.  She missed Him.  So her heart sank at his/His departure, she knew it was her fault, she should have opened the door sooner then she would have been able to enjoy His presence and praise for opening the door.  She called out to him/wisdom and he did not answer.  Song 5:6-7 is just progressive misery.   Withdrawing of the joy felt presence of the Holy Spirit.   She goes about looking all the normal places and can’t find him/Him.

Solomon the lesser Christ was more than any other beloved!

If right thoughts of Solomon who was a lover above all others humbled her.  How much more so would higher thoughts of Christ humble our hearts in a time of spiritual desertion when we want to sense his love.

Solomon was more loving than any other beloved his name was like perfume poured out.  More charming than any other beloved.  More wise than any other.  No other higher position on earth as king of kings.  The Flame of God in him burned unstoppable guided by unmeasurable wisdom 1 kings 4:29, Song 8:6.

Line up all lovers and this lover stands out among them all!  He is the chief beloved, the chief among 10,000!  She is queen of Israel, inherited Israel, is out of her slavery and has a husband that surpasses all other husbands in the way that he loves her and her moral beauty.

I believe the Holy Spirit chose the words in Context needed to be thought about.  Meaning in Chapter 5 the word bride is repeated 6x.  In Chapter one Solomon is king, but the king aspect is emphasized.  In 1:7 we see the shepherd aspect of her lover.

Here in Song 5:2 to 6:3, don’t miss this because it is important to understanding this whole section.  The focus is on her beloved.  The word beloved shows up in nearly every verse except when she describes her beloved in the middle of this section from 5:10-16.   So the emphasis is on everything that makes the one she loves better than any other lover.

Love delights in the happiness of the object of its affection.  Answering the door at night would have been the best for the bride’s holiness and happiness because God would want her to open the door for her husband.  A wife need not contemplate wether or not to leave her husband king outside at night when he/He wants to be with you alone at night.  But

God’s love flows through Solomon to the bride. God’s love flows through Solomon to the bride in giving her the greatest surety of her peace and happiness.  That would be a husband that would fulfill all her holy desires but not her greeds.

If you know you haven’t been listening to God calling you through His Word.  You know it.  You need only to think of the things you know you should be doing and start doing them.  You know what you should stop doing so stop doing evil things.  Trust that God sent His Son to bear our sins in His body at the cross for 3 infinite hours until the full debt was paid and all His Love poured out to the Father and sinful man Jesus Christ cried out “It is finished”

Other translations.  Interesting how some translations go with “what kind of beloved”  rather “more than any other beloved”  Although Song 5:10 has her lover being “chief among 10,000.”  Line up 10,000 husband lovers and her lover was chief of them all.

Song of Solomon 5:9 (NASB)

Solomon’s love to his bride was matchless.  He was chief among ten thousand beloved’s. Yet Solomon’s love though it made him the best beloved of all.  Still Solomon’s love is but a shadow compared to Christ’s love to His bride.

Now for the best application we argue from the lesser lover or beloved to the greater love of Christ. There has got to be a better way of doing this than I am here.  I guess this is more of a comparison between Solomon’s love and the love of Christ.  And the ways in which the excellency of Christ’s love is much more than that of Solomon’s, the lesser Christ.

1. Christ is self sufficient.  Solomon is dependent and Christ is self sufficient.
2. Christ is all sufficient.
3. Solomon’s love had a beginning Christ’s love is Eternal
4. Solomon’s love is mutable Christ’s love to His bride is immutable
   1. In times of spiritual desertion the soul may feel God’s love and therefore think He has changed rather than remembering Christ’s unfailing unchanging love at the cross.
5. Worthiness of love and honor.  Solomon was worthy of much honor and praise.  How much more worthy of our love is the Lord Jesus Christ, greater love has no one than this..
6. In her description of her lover in Song 5:10-16 many words that convey the idea of purity or holiness are used.  Solomon’s character was one of the finest quality.  Solomon was holy to some degree yet how much more so is Jesus our Husband who we are united to is Holy, Holy, Holy.  God is infinitely exalted above all created beings in holiness. Holiness is the highest sort of excellency or perfection that ever the creature attains unto; ’tis the highest beauty that shines in the creation.Now God is infinitely holy, and infinitely exalted therein, above the holy angels and all creatures; there is not the least tincture of defilement or pollution in the Deity, but he is infinitely far from it: he is all pure light, without mixture of darkness; he hates and abhors sin above all things, ’tis what is directly contrary to his nature. This, his great holiness, has he made known to us by his justice, truth, and faithfulness in all his dispensations towards us, and by the pure holiness of his laws and commands.
7. Wisdom, Solomon had unmeasurable wisdom 1 Kings 4:29.  Solomon was sensible that there was need of uncommon and extraordinary wisdom to rule such a kingdom as he had; but what wisdom, what vast knowledge and infinite penetration must he have, who has every being in the world to rule and govern; who rules every thought, and every purpose, every motion and action, not only of angels and men, but of every creature, great and small, even to every little atom in the whole creation, and that forever and ever? What infinite wisdom and knowledge is necessary and requisite in order to this! But this God doth; this he hath done and will do.
8. Solomon’s love is superlative, this is why her beloved is more than other beloved.   Solomon’s holy love was most delightful.  Unstoppable, unyielding and priceless Song 8:6-7 how much more delightful, unstoppable, unyielding and priceless is the Love of Jesus Christ, His Eternal, Infinite, Majestic, sweetest most powerful flame. (Im having a real hard time trying to put words to what Im thinking.  I see Solomon and He is a type of Christ.  Similar to Jesus in many ways.  How is Solomon’s action to his wife similar to Christ’s love to His Bride?   Like the bride really wanted to please her husband, then how much more so should we desire to please the more Beautiful King Jesus our Savior, Husband and Friend.)
9. Solomon’s power.  Solomon’s army.  Ability to keep his wife safe from enemies was matchless.  The best of best war horses were imported.  Solomon inherited David’s fighting men.  Now how much more so is the power of Jesus Christ.  God infinitely exceeds all created beings in power. If we look at might and strength, where can we find another being that can cause a great world to be or not to be, at a word, when he will; that can do everything that he pleases with infinite ease; that can manage a world, and keep all the various parts of it in such orderly and harmonious motion, who can manage such great bodies as the sun, moon, and stars, and can give what laws to them he pleases?

Her beloved  was more loving than any other beloved.  Yet there still is an even better lover than the lesser messiah it is the Greater Christ.

No husband loves like Christ. The Lord says to the people, “I have loved you,” and they say, “In what way have you loved us?” (Mal. 1:2). But we cannot say to Christ, “In what way have you loved us?” Christ has given real demonstrations of his love to his spouse. He has sent her his Word, which is a love-letter, and he has given her his Spirit, which is a love-token. Christ loves more than any other husband:

• Christ puts a richer robe on his bride: “For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.” (Isa. 61:10). In this robe, God looks on us as if we had not sinned. This robe is as truly ours to justify us, as it is Christ’s to bestow on us. This robe not only covers but adorns. Having on this robe, we are reputed righteous, not only as righteous as angels, but as righteous as Christ: “that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (2 Cor. 5:21).
• Christ gives his bride not only his golden garments but his image. He loves her into his own likeness. A husband may have a dear affection for his wife, but he cannot stamp his own image on her. If she is deformed, he may give her a veil to hide it, but he cannot put his beauty on her. But Christ imparts “the beauty of holiness” to his spouse: “Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you,” (Ezek. 16:14). When Christ marries a soul, he makes it fair: “You are all fair, my love” (Song 4:7). Christ never thinks he has loved his spouse enough till he can see his own face in her.
• Christ discharges those debts which no other husband can. Our sins are the worst debts we owe. If all the angels should contribute money, they could not pay one of these debts, but Christ frees us from these. He is both a Husband and a Surety. He says to justice what Paul said concerning Onesimus, “But if he has wronged you or owes anything, put that on my account.” (Philem. 1:18).
• Christ has suffered more for his spouse than ever any husband did for a wife. He suffered poverty and ignominy. He who crowned the heavens with stars was himself crowned with thorns. He was called a companion of sinners, so that we might be made companions of angels. He was regardless of his life; he leaped into the sea of his Father’s wrath to save his spouse from drowning.
• Christ’s love does not end with his life. He loves his spouse for ever: “I will betroth you to me forever” (Hos. 2:19). Well may the apostle call it “a love which passes knowledge” (Eph. 3:19).