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Sneak Preview of 2013! \ Week 49 summary posted

What a year it’s been pointing to the cross!  We started this blog in January with a Bible reading plan that caught our interest, and went from the creation in Genesis all the way to the death, burial,...

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The Song of Solomon on Sexuality and Marriage

This week, as we finish Ecclesiastes, we will begin reading the Song of Solomon. Solomon is credited with having written 1,005 songs. Whether or not he wrote this book is just one of the things about...

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Song of Solomon 1 – Solomon and His Bride

The poem, the “Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s” (verse 1) opens with the bride professing her love for him, saying that his kisses are sweeter than wine. She speaks fondly of the fragrance of his...

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Song of Solomon 2 – My Beloved is Mine

Chapter 2 begins with very familiar words. Most everyone has heard the hymn titled “Jesus, Rose of Sharon.” The name Sharon means “a level plain,” and this one was laid out about 15 miles west of the...

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Song of Solomon 3 – The Bride’s Dream

The third chapter finds the bride in her bed at night with what we must suppose is a dream, filled with erotic thoughts and desires, and anxious inquisitiveness concerning the whereabouts of her...

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Song of Solomon 4 – A Garden Fountain

Wedding at Cana It would be a mistake to pass over the text of these verses without carefully considering the significance of the seven different descriptions of beauty that Solomon uses for his bride....

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Song of Solomon 5 – My Beloved and My Friend

Aside from the allegoric theories, there are different meanings that commentators take away from the passages in chapter 5; and it is admittedly difficult to be sure one draws the right conclusions...

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Song of Solomon 6 – In the Garden of Love

The ancient city of Shunem, where Elisha had a room, was near this site on the edge of the plain of Esdraelon. Now that the Shulammite bride has become the favored one of Solomon, the daughters of...

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Song of Solomon 7 – The Bride Gives Her Love

Mount Carmel is not a single mountain peak, but a long range that extends about thirteen miles eastward from the Mediterranean Sea, just south of the modern city of Haifa. Here Elijah confronted 850...

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Song of Solomon 8 – Final Advice For the Young

The opening verses of this closing chapter of the Song of Songs begin with a seemingly strange statement by the bride that she wishes that she Vineyard near Hebron.Grapes are one of the most important...

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