Son 3:9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.
Son 3:10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
Son 3:11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Son 7:1 How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
Son 7:8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
Son 7:9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
Son 7:10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
Son 7:11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
Son 8:5 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.
Son 8:6 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.
Son 8:7 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.
This is one of the greatest stories in the Bible. Many people mostly our sweet ladies enjoy a love story. This story contains a shepherd, a shunamite woman, and Solomon.
Solomon certainly knew women and had to know a little something about love. 700 wives and 300 concubines.
Imagine going on vacation or of town for theweekend. Hats shoes dresses . At the time of this writing he had 60 wives and 80 concubines.
Solomon wrote the song of Solomon when he was a young man.
Proverbs when he was in his midyears. This writing is about women also. A woman of the street who seduces and then another woman he holds in great esteem who he describes as wisdom.
Then when he is an old man he writes ecclesiastes and asks what difference does anything make? Its all vanity
So the story is being told about a hot young babe and a fine looking young man.
Why is all of this descriptive love story in the bible? The lord trying to give us a powerful message.
Solomon is the king. David his son died. Solomon built a magnificent temple which took at least 100,000 me tobuild in 7 yrs.
Cost so much to build that it bankruopt the nation and they lost 46 nations to the north to king hiram because of the debt.
He also built his own home and a summer home in Lebanon.
Whne it became to warm he would take his caravans into the mountians and cool of Lebanon.
It was on one of these such journeys that this love story unfolds so important it was that the holy ghpst would have all mankind to learn its wisdom.
Solomon is in jerusalem and makes plans to go away for awhile. Solomon has 60 men who are a bodyguard that is the advnace guard.
He is in his lowriden chariot whith 20 inch spinners. Covered in gold withpillars. This is a chick magnet. The system is pumping with subs a 1000 watt amp.
Solomon is riding with his kingly robe and his huge rich caravan. As they wiond there way up the hillside in his chariot paved withlove he rounds a corner and he looks and sees an apple tree where he sees a young lady and a young man.
This young lady is so fine so beautiful that catches his eye. She is fine. Solomon being an expert in womanology says I would like to meet her.
He rolls on by and later on that night he sends back an emissary to bring her to theking.
Here is a young lady whois the youngest of her family. She has been assigned a task no one wants. Watch the sheep. David also was the youngest. She had the job nobody wanted. Like taking out thetrash.
She didn’t want this job, very little comfort very little shade. She makes the statemtn I am black meaning the son has tanned herskin.
She meets a young fellow under the shade of an apple tree.
This was the same place that shewas boen she had been to this tree that she met a young shepherd boy.
So at some point mom and dad no longer had to beg this young shunenmite girl to stay in the field with the sheep because she now is meeting her love at this apple tree.
As they are sitting under thetree one day they look up and see a great cloud of dust rising up and that there is a great numner of people heading
their way. O wow whatdo you know? It is the representatives of the king. They are stunned bythe length of the caravan the beauty of the chariots and all the wagons with shoe and hat boxes.
One glancefrom Solomon wasgetting ready to change their lives.
That night after she had taken her sheep back to the farm and she was resting there was a knock at the door and as they opened the door there was the kings emmisarys saying the king requests a meeting with you.
Why her? Her families poor. Notprinces or princesses. So they take he to meet Solomon and he does the initial interview process.
The young shepherd boy comes by to see his love and they tell him that the king Solomon has taken her to his summer home.
Fear grips his heart. What if I lose my love to the king?
You can read thisinthe story. He runs through thenight trying to find her.
He scales thewall of thecity. He bangs on doors crying out where is my beloved?
While all of this is going on. Solomon is sitting on his throne in his best garments.
When she comes in he wants her to see her postion in life and his postion in life. How high he was and how low he was.
She never even owned a pair of shoes. They give her a grand tour. She sees the kings wives and all of the hats and shoes andperfumes she is astounded. Shenever dreamed of the finery.
She sees world class beauties and sees herself as a poor country girl. Then she walks into theprescence of the king.
He was a song write hewrote some 1005 songs and he had 1000 wives.
He was no novice. Ths cat had a chariot paved withlove.
This shunenmite woman was overwhelmed. Why is he interested in me?
I am a nobody.
He is using every pick upline he has ever used . She is butteringher up.
He wants anaswer now. Shesays can I think about it? Hesays well sure.
Sleep on it we will talk aout it tomorrow
She goes to her room head is spinning.
When she woke up this morning she was just a shepherdess but tomorrow when shewakes up she may be a queen.
she was sleeping on a hard family builf bed butnow she is in the kings palace surrounded by opulencebeyond her wildest dreams.
It was at this time that her spherd boy had scaled the wall crying out have you seen my beloved?
He actually comes to her door in chpat 5:2 and hears him saying open to me my beloved. She is so pulled. What do I do?
Do I want all thefineries that Solomon can answer or do I want true love.\
While she hesitates her shepherd moves on. She runs out the door and now she herself is running through the city crying have you seen him have you seen my beloved?
But he has given up hope has climbed the wall and headed back home.
The next morning Solomon has it all prepared. There is no doubt in his mind that this young shunemite willbeadded to hisharem.
He actually brings her some shoes.
Her 1st pair of shoes. How beautiful are your feet with shoes. He is making hisplay. Look at mypalace theseclothes this food these grand furnishings thcould all be yours. Or you could spend your time under thattree.
He made a mistake. He said o your breath smells like apples. When he said apples all she could think about was her spherd boyfriend.
When he said apples while Solomon was in midsentence she jumped up and ran out of theshoes left the shoes and took off running. The servants are amazed Solomon isstunned. She runs out of theroom out of thesummer palace and runs downto theapple tree.
And there under the apple tree is theyoung shepherd whothought he had lost his love forever. Whatdoes he have to offer. He looks up and sees her running . he says who is ths that is runnin through the fireld. She is trunning back to me.
She says no to the shoes palace fineries chariot and Solomon.
And thescript says that love is strong as death.
I did not know if you would ever come bck.
She ran out and all of the kings helpers are thinking maybe she had to go to thebathroon. Maybe she is nervous and sick at her stomach. They wait and wait and wait.
They were thinking wow king Solomon is not going to put up with this h
Is going to triple their taxes kill the whole family take the farm it is not going to go well.
Solomon just sat there. Then everybody realized she said no.
And she said yes to the soliatary love of a poor shepherd.
But Solomon realized tht god was teachingsomething here. He remembered davids description of the lord is my shepherd. Life can be no better thanwith the shepherd.
He said bring me a tablet and a writing instrument. Solomom had a revelation.
If somehow Israel could the lord as this woman loved hershe pherd…
This is why this book is in your bible
More than a man admiring the body of a woman.
But an illustration of how we are to love our god.
I am not in love with myself more than god
My plans time talent or treasure more thangod.
He loved you when you did not love him
Whn you hd nothing to offer
When you were barefootedu
At some point there is going to be an element in the world that is goingto tell you how beatuful you are how much better you will be with them
If you just did nt go to church you would be better off. Job relationship
Heres your shoes take your place with multitude. Theotnly thing thing that will keep you is your time spent with theshepherd.
The pic of her unning through the fileds and to the shpeherds arms is great
Solomon did not kill her hewrote a song of tribute to thisbrave young lady.
