Song of Songs 2

Treated in 15 passages across the library.

The verses these writers stop at

  • 2:14 O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, In the covert of the steep place, Let me see thy countenance, Let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. 4
  • 2:5 Stay ye me with raisins, refresh me with apples; For I am sick from love. 3
  • 2:8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh, Leaping upon the mountains, Skipping upon the hills. 2
  • 2:11 For, lo, the winter is past; The rain is over and gone; 2
  • 2:1 I am a rose of Sharon, A lily of the valleys. 1
  • 2:2 As a lily among thorns, So is my love among the daughters. 1
  • 2:3 As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, And his fruit was sweet to my taste. 1
  • 2:10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. 1
  • 2:12 The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing [of birds] is come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land; 1
  • 2:16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: He feedeth [his flock] among the lilies. 1

American Standard Version

Where it is preached

  1. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Fifth Stage cites Song 2:1

    …ge to age endure.” So Christiana asked Prudence who it was that made those curious notes. Song 2:11,12. They are, answered she, our country birds: they sing these notes but seldom, except …

  2. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    1.3 The Preface to the Commandments cites Cant 2: 2

    …s the holy one of God, yet he was in the iron furnace. His spouse is a lily among thorns. Cant 2: 2. Though his sheep have the ear-mark of election upon them, yet they may have their wool f…

  3. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.4 The Fourth Commandment cites Cant 2: 3

    …y, ‘I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.’ Cant 2: 3. How can a spiritual heart choose but call the Sabbath a delight? Is it not delightful to…

  4. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    II. It is no sign that affections have the nature of true religion, or that they have not, that they have great effects on the body cites Cant. 2:5

    …55 Psal. 119:120. Ezra 9:4. Isa. 66:2, 5. Hab. 3:16. groaning,66 Rom. 8:36. being sick,77 Cant. 2:5, and 5:8. crying out,88 Psal. 84:2. panting,99 Psal. 38:10, and 42:1, and 119:131. and fa…

  5. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    2.2 The Second Commandment cites Cant 2: 5

    …ldly is the same as not to love. The spouse is said to be amore perculsa, ‘sick of love.’ Cant 2: 5. The seraphim are so called from their burning love. Love turns saints into seraphim; it …

  6. All Things for Good · Thomas Watson

    Of love to God cites Cant. ii. 5

    …r. vii. 30). But our love to God must flame forth. The spouse was sick of love to Christ (Cant. ii. 5). We can never love God as He deserves. As God’s punishing us is less than we deserve (Ez…

  7. Union and Communion · Hudson Taylor

    Section II cites Cant. ii. 8

    Communion Broken—Restoration Cant. ii. 8-iii.5 “Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, le…

  8. Union and Communion · Hudson Taylor

    Section VI cites Cant. ii. 8

    …atisfied her deepest longings, and found His own satisfaction in her. The second section (Cant. ii. 8-iii. 5) showed failure on her part; she was lured back again into the world, and soon fou…

  9. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    XII. Nothing can be certainly concluded concerning the nature of religious affections, that any are the subjects of, from this, that the outward manifestations of them, and the relation persons give of them, are very affecting and pleasing to the truly godly, and such as greatly gain their charity, cites Cant. 2:11

    …spring season, when the benign influences of the heavens cause the blossoms to put forth. Cant. 2:11, 12. there are vast numbers of them upon the trees, which all look fair and promising; bu…

  10. Till He Come · Charles H. Spurgeon

    Fragrant Spices from the Mountains of Myrrh cites Song ii. 14

    …nce; let Me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely.” (Sol. Song ii. 14.) She thinks herself unmeet to keep company with such a Prince, but He entices her from h…

  11. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections · Jonathan Edwards

    VIII. Truly gracious affections differ from those affections that are false and delusive, in that they tend to, and are attended with the lamblike, dovelike spirit and temper of Jesus Christ cites Cant. 2:14

    … are as the eyes of doves." And the church is frequently compared to a dove in Scripture: Cant. 2:14, "O, my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock." Chap. 5:2, "Open to me, my love, my do…

  12. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    3.1 Man's Inability to keep the Moral Law cites Cant 2: 14

    …ling mind, it is accepted.’ 2 Cor 8: 12. ‘Let me hear thy voice, for sweet is thy voice.’ Cant 2: 14. Though the prayers of the righteous are mixed with sin, yet God sees they would pray bet…

  13. The Ten Commandments · Thomas Watson

    4.6 Prayer cites Cant 2: 14

    …cian play a great while ere you throw him down money, because you love to hear his music. Cant 2: 14. (2) God may delay prayer when he will not deny it, that he may humble us. He has spoken …

  14. Sermons on Several Occasions · John Wesley

    The Marks of the New Birth cites Song 2:16

    …n thousand.” He knoweth, he feeleth what that means, “My Beloved is mine, and I am his.” (Song 2:16.) “Thou art fairer than the children of men; full of grace are thy lips, because God hath…

  15. The Pilgrim's Progress · John Bunyan

    The Tenth Stage cites Song 2:10-12

    …tering into the country of Beulah, whose air was very sweet and pleasant, Isaiah 62:4-12; Song 2:10-12; the way lying directly through it, they solaced themselves there for a season. Yea, here…