Song of Solomon 8:4

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother's breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me. ²I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates. ³His left hand is under my head, and his right arm embraces me. ⁴O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

Bible Verse Review
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charge: Song of Solomon 2:7, Song of Solomon 3:5

that ye stir not up, nor awake: Heb. why should ye stir up, or, why awake, etc.

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 1:13 - he shall Song of Solomon 5:8 - charge Luke 23:28 - daughters

Cross-References

Genesis 8:17
Bring out all the living creatures that are with you-birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground-so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it."

Genesis 8:19
Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird-everything that moves upon the earth-came out of the ark, kind by kind.

2 Kings 19:37
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon became king in his place.

Isaiah 37:38
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon became king in his place.

Jeremiah 51:27
"Raise a banner in the land! Blow the trumpet among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her-Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up,

nor awake [my] love, until he please. The phrase, "by the roes [and] by the hinds of the field", used in Song of Solomon 2:7; is here omitted; not as if the charge was less vehement and earnest here, for the form of expostulation seems rather to express more earnestness: for the words may be rendered, "why will ye", or "why should ye stir up, and why awake my love?" i being apprehensive they were about to do it; and which she dissuades from, as unreasonable and dangerous, and might be prejudicial to them as well as to her. The allusion is to virgins, that sung songs at marriages; one in the evening, lulling to sleep; and another in the morning, awaking and stirring up from it k.

i מה, "cur", Montanus, Schmidt. k Vid. Theocrit. Idyll. 18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That ye stir not up - literally, as in the margin. For “my love” read as before love. The omission of “the roes and hinds” here is noticeable. Hebrew scholars regard this charge here and elsewhere Song of Solomon 2:7; Song of Solomon 3:5 as an admonition to Israel not to attempt obtaining a possession of, or restoration to, the promised land, and union or reunion there with the Holy One, before being inwardly prepared for it by the trials of the wilderness and the exile. This interpretation comes very near to what appears to be the genuine literal meaning (see Song of Solomon 2:7 note). They suppose the words here to be addressed by Messiah to Israel in “the wilderness of the people” Ezekiel 20:35, in the latter day, and the former words Song of Solomon 3:5 by Moses in the wilderness of Sinai.