10 “Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,
your neck with strings of jewels.
11 We will make you earrings of gold,
studded with silver.” Solomon’s song of songs 1″ 10-11
Solomon and a born-again Gentile slave girl fall in love at his first anointing. He takes her back to David’s palace where she makes peace with the daughters of Jerusalem by telling her testimony. Then she wants to be near Solomon as he shepherds his sheep. She is on fire for him and has no fear so he compares her to a fearless mare in battle. Then to express his love to her further, he gives her earrings and a necklace and promises to give her earrings studded with silver.
Originally, I believed this was a compliment of her character. Meaning that she really had no real earrings or a real necklace on because she was a slave girl and wouldn’t have money for such things. Over time I now believe she is wearing literal earrings and a necklace. Given to her by Solomon out of his love to her.
After showing up in his chambers he gives her earrings and a necklace then says to her, “Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings,
your neck with strings of jewels.“
Rabekkah was given gold bracelets in Gen. 24
“And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.”
Hard to tell if Rebekkah got these for being a virgin as it says in chapter 24 or as a gift or as a gift that illustrates her being spoken for.
If you go to Solomon’s Song of Songs 8:8-9 we have a young woman who hasn’t hit puberty yet that if she is a wall she should be praised and decked with silver if she is a door, then she should be boarded up. I doubt a woman before puberty would be having sex, so I assume this refers to masturbation. But could refer to sex as well. In any case, the virgin is supposed to be decked with silver. Sort of like today when a woman gets married and is a virgin, the custom was for her to wear a white dress. Though they all wear white dresses all the time anyway.
So, when Solomon says that they “will make her earrings of gold studded with silver.” in Song 1:11 it is because she is a virgin which is consistent with her being “a garden locked up” on their wedding night in Song 4:12. Her being a garden locked up includes the fact that she has not even touched herself.
My old allegorical interpretation is here. Adorning Jewels. Due to me learning from the puritans, I originally understood the book to be an allegory of Christ and the church and didn’t have a literal historical view like I do now. So, I am going back to redo what I wrote before.
Interesting thing is that back then I totally believed what I wrote was right, and now I totally believe a literal historical view is right. lol. I know 100% believe the song to be literal and have analogies rather than it being an allegory.
Application
1 It looks like it would be wise to talk to your daughter before puberty about what the Bible says about masturbation and sex.
2 After talking with her
“If she is a wall,
we will build towers of silver on her.
If she is a door,
we will enclose her with panels of cedar.” Song 8:10-11.
Adorn her with something or at the very least, praise her often for keeping herself pure. Show her this verse and remind her that God has a happiness beyond her imagination reserved for her when married.
3 Love gives. Love gives freely. Therefore, give freely without expecting anything in return to the ones you love.
4 Remember there is nothing wrong with adorning yourself with jewelry. Just don’t do it to get people’s attention at church or forgetting what true inner beauty is.
“I also want the women to dress modestly, with decency and propriety, adorning themselves, not with elaborate hairstyles or gold or pearls or expensive clothes, 10 but with good deeds, appropriate for women who profess to worship God.” 1 Tim. 2:9-10.
3 “Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. 4 Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. 5 For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves.” 1 peter 3:3.
This is written for the women to know what a true and primary beauty is rather than focusing on secondary and physical beauty too much. Or forgetting about obeying God and focusing on external beauty.
Do you look at the moral love and beauty of Christ’s holiness so as to see your inner self clearly more than you look in the mirror to check your physical appearance? Both are good but seeing Jesus is more important and of greater value.
4 What have you done lately for the one you love lately, so that she may feel loved? Love gives. Ask her, “What have I done in the past that made you feel loved?” What can I do to help you feel loved?
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