Song of Solomon 2:1 KJV — MannaFest

Song of Solomon 2:1

I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.

KJV

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ASV

I am a rose of Sharon, A lily of the valleys.

WEB

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valley.

YLT

As a lily among the thorns,

DBT

I am a narcissus of Sharon, A lily of the valleys.

About this book

Old Testament

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Song of Solomon — Love poetry in eight chapters — the Bible's most surprising book. A chiastic structure; a bride and bridegroom alternating in dialogue; and a three-school interpretive tradition the site surfaces without adjudication.

Author: Traditional: Solomon (1:1 ''the song of songs, which is Solomon's''). Critical: the ''of Solomon'' construction allows ''about Solomon'' or ''to Solomon'' and opens the authorship question. §7.9 surfaces; most readings keep Solomonic association.
Date: Solomonic reading: c. 965–930 BC. Critical reading: later editorial compilation.

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12 verses on the floor

Hosea 14:5
I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Isaiah 35:1–2
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
Song of Solomon 5:13
His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.
1 Chronicles 5:16
And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.

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Believers have tasted that the Lord Jesus is gracious ( 1 Pet. ii. 3 ); his fruits are all the precious privileges of the new covenant, purchased by his blood and communicated by his Spirit. Promises are sweet to a believer, yea, and precepts too.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

rose--if applied to Jesus Christ, it, with the white lily (lowly, 2Co 8:9), answers to "white and ruddy" (So 5:10). But it is rather the meadow-saffron: the Hebrew means radically a plant with a pungent bulb, inapplicable to the rose. It is of a white and violet color [MAURER, GESENIUS, and WEISS].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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