the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Song of Solomon 6:12
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I didn’t know what was happening to me.I felt like I wasin a chariot with a nobleman.
Without realizing it, My desire set me with my royal people's chariots. Friends
Or ever I was aware, my soul made me like the chariots of Amminadib.
Before I was aware, my desire set me among the chariots of my kinsman, a prince.
"Before I was aware, my soul set me Over the chariots of my noble people."
Before I realized it, my desire for you made me feel like a prince in a chariot.
"Before I was aware [of what was happening], my desire had brought me Into the area of the princes of my people [the king's retinue]."
Without realizing it, My desire set me with my royal people's chariots. Friends
I knewe nothing, my soule set me as the charets of my noble people.
I did not know it, but my soul set meAmong the chariots of my noble people."
Before I realized it, my desire had set me among the chariots of my noble people.
But in my imagination I was suddenly riding on a glorious chariot.
Before I was aware, My soul set me upon the chariots of my willing people.
I was so excited when she put me in the royal chariot.
And being unfamiliar with the place, I sat in the public chariot which was ready.
I am trembling; you have made me as eager for love as a chariot driver is for battle.
I did not know my heart set me in a chariot of my princely people.
I did not know, but My soul set Me on the chariots of My princely people.
Then the charettes of the prynce of my people made me sodenly afrayed.
Before I was aware, my soul set me Among the chariots of my princely people.
Before I was conscious of it, â¢â¢â¢ Three dots are used where it is no longer possible to be certain of the true sense of the Hebrew words, and for this reason no attempt has been made to put them into Basic English.
Before I was aware, my soul set me upon the chariots of my princely people.
Or euer I was aware, my soule made me like the chariots of Amminadib.
I knewe not that my soule had made me the charyot of the people that be vnder tribute.
Return, return, O Sunamite; return, return, and we will look at thee. What will ye see in the Sunamite? She comes as bands of armies.
Or ever I was aware, my soul set me [among] the chariots of my princely people.
Y knew not; my soule disturblide me, for the charis of Amynadab.
Before I was aware, my soul set me [Among] the chariots of my princely people.
Or ere I was aware, my soul made me [like] the chariots of Amminadib.
I was beside myself with joy! There please give me your myrrh, O daughter of my princely people.
Before I was even aware,My soul had made meAs the chariots of my noble people. [fn]
Before I realized it, my strong desires had taken me to the chariot of a noble man.
Before I knew it, I wanted to be over the war-wagons of the princes of my people."
Before I was aware, my fancy set me in a chariot beside my prince.
I know not how it was , my soul, set for me the chariots of my willing people!
(6-11) I knew not: my soul troubled me for the chariots of Aminadab.
Before I was aware, my fancy set me in a chariot beside my prince.
I knew not my soul, It made me -- chariots of my people Nadib.
"Before I was aware, my soul set me Over the chariots of my noble people."
Contextual Overview
[She]
I had gone down to the nut orchard to see the fresh green plants in the valley, to see if the vine had budded, or if the pomegranate trees were in bloom. 12 Before I knew it, I found myself in a chariot, and with me was a prince. 13 [Chorus] Where has your darling gone, you most beautiful of women? Which way did your darling turn, so that we can help you find him?[She]
My darling went down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens and to gather lilies. I belong to the man I love, and he belongs to me; he pastures his flock among the lilies.[He]
You are as beautiful as Tirtzah, my love, as lovely as Yerushalayim, but formidable as an army marching under banners. Turn your eyes away from me, because they overwhelm me! Your hair is like a flock of goats streaming down Gil‘ad. Your teeth are like a flock of sheep that have just come up from being washed; each of them is matched, and none of them is missing. Your cheeks are like a pomegranate split open behind your veil. There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, as well as young women beyond number; but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, her mother's only child, the darling of the one who bore her. The daughters see her and call her happy; the queens and concubines praise her. "Who is this, shining forth like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun" — but formidable as an army marching under banners?[She]
I had gone down to the nut orchard to see the fresh green plants in the valley, to see if the vine had budded, or if the pomegranate trees were in bloom. Before I knew it, I found myself in a chariot, and with me was a prince.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Or ever I was aware: Heb. I knew not
soul: Jeremiah 31:18-20, Hosea 11:8, Hosea 11:9, Luke 15:20
made me like the chariots of Amminadib: or, set me on the chariots of my willing people
Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 3:4 - but Song of Solomon 4:9 - thou hast
Cross-References
In time, when men began to multiply on earth, and daughters were born to them,
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were attractive; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose.
Adonai said, "My Spirit will not live in human beings forever, for they too are flesh; therefore their life span is to be 120 years."
The N'filim were on the earth in those days, and also afterwards, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them; these were the ancient heroes, men of renown.
(Maftir) Adonai saw that the people on earth were very wicked, that all the imaginings of their hearts were always of evil only.
But Noach found grace in the sight of Adonai . Haftarah B'resheet: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 42:5–43:10 (A); 42:5–21 (S) B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah B'resheet: Mattityahu (Matthew) 1:1–17; 19:3–9; Mark 10:1–12; Luke 3:23–38; Yochanan (John) 1:1–18; 1 Corinthians 6:15–20; 15:35–58; Romans 5:12–21; Ephesians 5:21–32; Colossians 1:14–17; 1 Timothy 2:11–15; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 1:1–3; 3:7–4:11; 11:1–7; 2 Kefa (2 Peter) 3:3–14; Revelation 21:1–5; 22:1–5 Here is the history of Noach. In his generation, Noach was a man righteous and wholehearted; Noach walked with God. Noach fathered three sons, Shem, Ham and Yefet. The earth was corrupt before God, the earth was filled with violence. God saw the earth, and, yes, it was corrupt; for all living beings had corrupted their ways on the earth. God said to Noach, "The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth. Make yourself an ark of gofer-wood; you are to make the ark with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside. Here is how you are to build it: the length of the ark is to be 450 feet, its width seventy-five feet and its height forty-five feet. You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks. "Then I myself will bring the flood of water over the earth to destroy from under heaven every living thing that breathes; everything on earth will be destroyed. But I will establish my covenant with you; you will come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife and your sons' wives with you. "From everything living, from each kind of living being, you are to bring two into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they are to be male and female. Of each kind of bird, each kind of livestock, and each kind of animal creeping on the ground, two are to come to you, so that they can be kept alive. Also take from all the kinds of food that are eaten, and collect it for yourself; it is to be food for you and for them." This is what Noach did; he did all that God ordered him to do.
God said to Noach, "The end of all living beings has come before me, for because of them the earth is filled with violence. I will destroy them along with the earth.
Make yourself an ark of gofer-wood; you are to make the ark with rooms and cover it with pitch both outside and inside.
Here is how you are to build it: the length of the ark is to be 450 feet, its width seventy-five feet and its height forty-five feet.
You are to make an opening for daylight in the ark eighteen inches below its roof. Put a door in its side; and build it with lower, second and third decks.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Or ever one was aware, my soul made me [like] the chariots of Amminadib. These are either the words of the church or of Christ, saying, "I know not" y as the first clause may be rendered: if the words of the church, the sense may be, that though she knew not where her beloved was gone, when he went from her, yet she ran about in search of him as swiftly as the chariots of Amminadib; and when she did know that he was gone down into the garden, immediately, on a sudden, at an unawares, such was the strength of her love and affection to him, the she moved as swiftly after him as if she had been in one of those chariots; and this may signify also her courage and resolution, that, notwithstanding all difficulties and discouragements she met with, she drove on as briskly and as courageously after him as ever Amminadib did, in one of his chariots, in the field of battle: or, "I know not"; whether in the body or out of the body; such was the rapture and ecstasy she was in, when she heard her beloved say, "I went down into the garden of nuts", c. or, when she heard the daughters' commendations of her, she did not think that such belonged to her, and therefore said, "I know not" however, this caused her to make the greater haste to answer such characters, and to enjoy the company of her beloved. But rather they are the words of Christ, who was now in his garden, observing the condition it was in, and says, "I know not", or do not perceive z, that it was in a fruitful and flourishing case, and therefore took all the speedy methods he could to bring it into a better; or being in a transport of love to his church, it caused him speedily to return unto her, and grant her his presence; offer all necessary assistance, and be as chariots to her, to carry her through difficulties, and to protect and defend her from all enemies: and this his soul caused him to do, not her worth and worthiness, love and loveliness, but his own good will and pleasure, and cordial affection for her. Many take Amminadib to be the proper name of a person, who was one of Solomon's chariot drivers, that understood his business well, and drove swiftly, and with success, to whom Christ compares himself, when returning to his church with haste: but I rather think, with Jarchi, Aben Ezra, and others, that it is an appellative, consisting of two words, "ammi", my people, and "nadib", willing or princely, and may be rendered, "the chariots of my willing" or "princely people" a; meaning, not angels, nor ministers, but the people of Christ themselves, to whom he is as chariots; for so I should choose to translate the words, "my soul made me as chariots to my willing" or "princely people"; and so describes the persons who share in this instance of his grace; they are such who are made willing by Christ, in the day of his power on them, to be saved by him, and serve him,
Psalms 110:3; and who are of a free, princely, and munificent spirit, Psalms 2:12; being princes, and the sons and daughters of a prince, Song of Solomon 7:1; to these Christ makes himself as chariots, as he now was to the church, and took her up along with him to enjoy his presence, she had sought for and desired. Wherefore the daughters of Jerusalem, who had accompanied her hitherto in search of him, perceiving she was going from then, say what follows.
y לא ידעתי ουκ εγνω, Sept. "nescivi", V. L. "non novi", Montanus. z "Nondum percipientem haec", Junius Tremellius, Piscator. a עמי נדיב "populi mei spontanei", Pagninus "voluntari", Piscator, Cocceius, Marchius, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The bride’s words may be paraphrased: “You speak of me as a glorious beauty; I was lately but a simple maiden engaged in rustic toils. I went down one day into the walnut-garden” (the walnut abounded on the shores of Lake Gennesaret, and is still common in Northern Palestine) “to inspect the young plants of the vale” (i. e., the wady, or watercourse, with now verdant banks in the early spring after the rainy season), “and to watch the budding and blossoming of vine and pomegranate.” Compare Song of Solomon 2:11-13 notes. “Then, suddenly, ere I was myself aware, my soul” (the love-bound heart) “had made me the chariot of a lordly people” (i. e., an exalted personage, one who resides on the high places of the earth; compare 2Ki 2:12; 2 Kings 13:14, where Elijah and Elisha, as the spiritual leaders of the nation, are “the chariot and horsemen of Israel,” compare also Isaiah 22:18). This last clause is another instance of the love for military similitudes in the writer of the Song.
Ammi-nadib - literally, my people a noble one. The reference is either to Israel at large as a wealthy and dominant nation, under Solomon, or to the bride’s people (the Shulamites) in particular, to the chief place among whom, by her union with the king, she is now exalted.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 12. The chariots of Amminadib. — Probably for their great speed these chariots became proverbial. The passage marks a strong agitation of mind, and something like what we term palpitation of the heart. As I am not aware of any spiritual meaning here, I must be excused from commenting on that which is literal. Amminadib signifies my noble or princely people; but it may here be a proper name, and Amminadib might be celebrated for his skill and rapidity in driving, as Jehu was.
