Naahmah, had faith in YHWH and love to His Messiah.
She fell in love with young King Solomon, Israel’s 3rd Messiah at his first anointing. The account of her falling in love with him and them going to David’s palace and Solomon’s chambers is in Song 1:2-4.
When she gets to David’s palace, Solomon’s home, the Daughters of Jerusalem are there.
These woman have grown up with the Torah and Psalms. These woman were virgins and made it there business to be a wife fit for the position of wife of the Messiah. Motivated mainly by the fact that it was possible that she might give birth to The Messiah. The biggest deal for a woman back then!!!
Naahmah was a Gentile and grew up being taught truth by her mother. Song 8:2.
There were so many promises tied to Solomon.
King of peace. Build a temple where people could get closer to God and worship Him. Rule God’s people righteously. God would be his Father. Solomon would be His beloved son, therefore Solomon’s other name, Jedidiah.
Rule Godl’s people righteously and in peace. ( This qualifies him as a good and righteous husband. She had the promises of God to believe in when she fell in love, therefore she had no fear in pursuing him. She professes her love and desire to have a closer more intimate relationship with him to him at his first anointing. He then takes her to his chambers where the daughters of Jerusalem are.
King of peace, making peace with Jew and Gentile by proclaiming His Name and them getting a view of God’s Glory as seen in the temple sacrificial system. This beauty and glory is what was David’s primary desire, “One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.” Psalm 27:4.
She shows up and the daughters of Jerusalem are staring at her. They know the Torah and the promises of God and the hard work it would be to be the bride of the Messiah in God’s kingdom on earth. Great responsibilities that she will live up to in Chapter 6.
The holy and possibly self-righteous daughters of Jerusalem take one look at the sunburnt, slave, Gentile that at first look you would think that she worship Baal and not YHWH. What union could light have with darkness if she was still in the darkness of a sinful life. She feels as if she is being treated by them as they would treat a prostitute. A prostitute was not holy, lived a sinful adulterous life and deserved only death and hell fire forever. They misjudged her and then she defend herself by giving her testimony.
It starts with a testimony about herself. They had their view of her and she has a view of herself and she proclaims it,
“I am black and beautiful,
You daughters of Jerusalem,
Like the tents of Kedar,
Like the curtains of Solomon.
6“Do not stare at me because I am [f]dark,
For the sun has tanned me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me;
They made me caretaker of the vineyards,
But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.
7“Tell me, you whom my soul loves,
Where do you pasture your flock,
Where do you have it lie down at noon?
For why should I be like one who [g]veils herself
Beside the flocks of your companions?” Song 1:5-6
When she says ,”Dark am I yet lovely” She is saying that yes, I have a sunburn and was a slave girl and lived a past life of sin, I am now fit to be a wife of God’s holy Messiah because I am beautiful. Morally beautiful. Fit to love and obey my husband and holy coming messiah, for David was still alive at this point. Solomon at his first anointing became Co-regent king with David, his father unitl David died and Solomon is crowned a second time. Song 3:11 and Chronicles 29:2
To be fit for love and service to God and His messiah is to be beautiful or lovely. Therefore our bride in the love song professes,
“Dark am I, yet lovely” Song 1:5 Solomon’s beautiful tent curtains served their purpose.
She was morally lovely and beautiful because she had a love from YHWH in her heart. Song 8:6-7.
Okay, it’s at this point that I am wondering what specific things would a wife of Solomon have to do?
She would have to be the prime example of a wife! Everyone would be looking up to her as they do later on in Song 8:8-9. But Solomon and Naamah just met and the holy and somewhat self-righteous daughters of Jerusalem don’t think a Gentile Ammonite deserves to be queen in God’s holy kingdom on earth. Now a prostitute would not be fit to be queen either so they stare at her as if she were an outcast sinful prostitute. Naamah is being treated like one and doesn’t want it to be so therefore she says she wants to be accepted into the flock of God and not beside it and rejected. Them accepting her is based on her sincere testimony of a past life that she regrets and that she now has the love of YHWH in her heart.
This love of God in her heart gives her a humble boldness and courage in her approach to young king Solomon. This humble boldness and courage captivates Solomon’s heart and is what makes her most beautiful and therefore he compares her to a fearless “mare in battle” Song 1:9.
There was a little enmity when Naamah met the daughters of Jerusalem the first time but she makes peace with them. She was a successful peacemaker due to the almighty love of God in her heart, sincere testimony, fearless heart in pursuit of God’s Messiah.
Imagine if we had such a heart for Jesus Christ, our Savior and Heavenly Bridegroom!!
Wouldn’t Jesus be pleased with us if we had a fearless heart to pursue a closer more intimate relationship with Him? Have no fear in approaching so holy a being as Jesus for He has paid the penalty for our sins and invites us to confess them often to Him and then repent with Godly sorrow because we have the love of God in our hearts, communicated to us by the Holy Spirit.
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