--- title: "Song of Solomon 5 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read Song of Solomon 5 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine wi" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/song-of-solomon/5" --- [ Read](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5)[ Commentary](/study/song-of-solomon/5)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/song-of-solomon/5) Audio 1 I am come into my garden, my sister, *my* spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.* 2 ¶ I sleep, but my heart waketh: *it is* the voice of my beloved that knocketh, *saying*, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, *and* my locks with the drops of the night. 3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? 4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole *of the door*, and my bowels were moved for him.* 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped *with* myrrh, and my fingers *with* sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.* 6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, *and* was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. 7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. 8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I *am* sick of love.* 9 ¶ What *is* thy beloved more than *another* beloved, O thou fairest among women? what *is* thy beloved more than *another* beloved, that thou dost so charge us? 10 My beloved *is* white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.* 11 His head *is as* the most fine gold, his locks *are* bushy, *and* black as a raven.* 12 His eyes *are* as *the eyes* of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, *and* fitly set.* 13 His cheeks *are* as a bed of spices, *as* sweet flowers: his lips *like* lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.* 14 His hands *are as* gold rings set with the beryl: his belly *is as* bright ivory overlaid *with* sapphires. 15 His legs *are as* pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance *is* as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. 16 His mouth *is* most sweet: yea, he *is* altogether lovely. This *is* my beloved, and this *is* my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.* [Song of Solomon 4](/study/song-of-solomon/4) [Song of Solomon 6](/study/song-of-solomon/6) ## Commentary To verse 1 ***[Song of Solomon 5:1](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/1)*****.*****I have eaten my honey-comb,*****&c.—** Taylor, in his Concordance, interprets this passage, *I have eaten my pure wood honey with the honey of the pan;*explaining *wood honey*to be that which in hot weather bursts the comb, and runs down the hollow trees or rocks, where, in Judaea, the bees made great store of honey. This interpretation has some considerable authorities in its favour: yet our rendering is supported by 1Sa 14:27 and דבשׁ *debash,*is evidently *the honey of bees*in [Judges 14:8](/kjv/judges/14/8); [Judges 9:18](/kjv/judges/9/18). The verbs in this verse should be read throughout in the present tense; and the last clause might be rendered, *Yea, drink abundantly of our loves.*This invitation is only metaphorical, the bridegroom calling upon his friends to come and feast upon the sight of their mutual happiness. Christ, in this day's eclogue, to use the words of our English bible, sheweth his love to the church, who prayeth to be made fit for his presence, Son 5:16 while he awakeneth the church with his calling. The 8th verse of the preceding chapter contains Christ's assurance of protection to his church from the rage and cruelty of persecutors, while, to encourage the church's confidence, he expresses strongly the satisfaction he has in the unity and graces of her members, Son 5:9-10 in the excellence and purity of her doctrines, Son 5:11 and, in short, in that divine composition of graces, which is visible in the church, and which makes her members acceptable to God, and useful to men, [Song of Solomon 5:12-14](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/12-14).;—virtues and graces which are preserved in life and vigour by that heavenly doctrine which flows from Him as plentifully and as perpetually as waters do from the springs of Mount Lebanon, [Song of Solomon 5:15](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/15). On this declaration of his love, the church earnestly intreats to be made worthy of it; praying that the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and his manifold gifts, may not be wanting to her, but breathe perpetually upon her, as the cooling winds do upon a pleasant garden; thus rendering her a paradise indeed, not only enabling her to fill the world with the sweet odour of the knowledge of Christ, but giving her boldness to invite Him, the beloved of her soul, to come and reap the delightful fruits of his own care and labour, [Song of Solomon 5:16](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/16). We are promised that no petitions for the Divine Spirit sent up from believing hearts, shall be rejected. Christ therefore replies with much complacence to his spouse, chap. [Song of Solomon 5:1](/kjv/song-of-solomon/5/1).—"I am well pleased to see the fruitfulness of my garden, and therefore have not denied thy request; but am present in it, and have brought it to such perfection, that it hath produced many excellent persons, more precious than myrrh and all the spices before-named, with whose services I am not only well pleased, but I rejoice in the purity of their doctrine, and of their lives; inviting all who bear any love to me, both in heaven and earth, to rejoice and be exceedingly glad with me." 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