--- title: "Song of Solomon 3 - Study King James Bible with commentary critical and explanatory on the whole bible" description: "Read Song of Solomon 3 with commentary critical and explanatory on the whole bible commentary. 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/song-of-solomon/3" --- [ Read](/kjv/song-of-solomon/3)[ Commentary](/study/song-of-solomon/3)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/song-of-solomon/3) Audio 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: *to whom I said*, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? 4 *It was* but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. 5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake *my* love, till he please. 6 ¶ Who *is* this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? 7 Behold his bed, which *is* Solomon’s; threescore valiant men *are* about it, of the valiant of Israel. 8 They all hold swords, *being* expert in war: every man *hath* his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. 9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.* 10 He made the pillars thereof *of* silver, the bottom thereof *of* gold, the covering of it *of* purple, the midst thereof being paved *with* love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. 11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart. [Song of Solomon 2](/study/song-of-solomon/2) [Song of Solomon 4](/study/song-of-solomon/4) ## Commentary To verse 1 **1. By night**—literally, "By nights." Continuation of the longing for the dawn of the Messiah ([Song of Solomon 2:17](/kjv/song-of-solomon/2/17); [Psalms 130:6](/kjv/psalms/130/6); [Malachi 4:2](/kjv/malachi/4/2)). The spiritual desertion here ([Song of Solomon 2:17](/kjv/song-of-solomon/2/17); [Song of Solomon 3:5](/kjv/song-of-solomon/3/5)) is not due to indifference, as in [Song of Solomon 3:5](/kjv/song-of-solomon/3/5)- :. "As nights and dews are better for flowers than a continual sun, so Christ's absence (at times) giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and furnisheth a fair field to faith to put forth itself" [RUTHERFORD]. Contrast [Song of Solomon 1:13](/kjv/song-of-solomon/1/13); [Psalms 30:6](/kjv/psalms/30/6); [Psalms 30:7](/kjv/psalms/30/7). **on . . . bed**—the secret of her failure ([Isaiah 64:7](/kjv/isaiah/64/7); [Jeremiah 29:13](/kjv/jeremiah/29/13); [Amos 6:1](/kjv/amos/6/1); [Amos 6:4](/kjv/amos/6/4); [Hosea 7:14](/kjv/hosea/7/14)). **loveth**—no want of sincerity, but of diligence, which she now makes up for by leaving her bed to seek Him ([Psalms 22:2](/kjv/psalms/22/2); [Psalms 63:8](/kjv/psalms/63/8); [Isaiah 26:9](/kjv/isaiah/26/9); [John 20:17](/kjv/john/20/17)). Four times ([John 20:17](/kjv/john/20/17)- :) she calls Jesus Christ, "Him whom my soul loveth," designating Him as *absent;* language of desire: "He loved me," would be language of *present* fruition ([John 20:17](/kjv/john/20/17)- :). In questioning the watchmen ([John 20:17](/kjv/john/20/17)- :), she does not even name Him, so full is her heart of Him. Having found Him at dawn (for throughout *He* is the *morning*), she charges the daughters not to abridge by intrusion the period of His stay. Compare as to the thoughtful seeking for Jesus Christ in the time of John the Baptist, in vain at first, but presently after successful ([Luke 3:15-22](/kjv/luke/3/15-22); [John 1:19-34](/kjv/john/1/19-34)). **found him not**—Oh, for such honest dealings with ourselves ([Proverbs 25:14](/kjv/proverbs/25/14); [Judges 1:12](/kjv/judges/1/12))! ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com","name":"Real Bible Believers","description":"RBB","publisher":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/search?q={search_term_string}","query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/song-of-solomon/3#primaryimage","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg","width":672,"height":448,"caption":"Real Bible Believers"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/song-of-solomon/3#webpage","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/song-of-solomon/3","name":"Song of Solomon 3 - Study King James Bible with commentary critical and explanatory on the whole bible","isPartOf":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/song-of-solomon/3#primaryimage"},"author":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509"},"description":"Read Song of Solomon 3 with commentary critical and explanatory on the whole bible commentary. 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/song-of-solomon/3#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/song-of-solomon/3"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/song-of-solomon/3#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study","name":"Study Bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible","name":"commentary critical and explanatory on the whole bible"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/song-of-solomon","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/song-of-solomon","name":"Song of Solomon"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"item":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/song-of-solomon/3","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/commentary-critical-and-explanatory-on-the-whole-bible/song-of-solomon/3","name":"3"}}]},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#/schema/person/e966585dde703268e7f6ae890ea98509","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo","inLanguage":"en-US","url":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","contentUrl":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/android-chrome-512x512.png","width":512,"height":512},"logo":{"@id":"https://realbiblebelievers.com/#personlogo"},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/RBiblebeliever","https://www.facebook.com/RBibleBelievers"]}]} ```