Adam Clarke Commentary - Song of Solomon 1:17

Adam Clarke Commentary - Song of Solomon 1:17 - 1:17

Online Resource Library

Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com

Adam Clarke Commentary - Song of Solomon 1:17 - 1:17

(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)

This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

1:1 - 1:1
1:2 - 1:2
1:3 - 1:3
1:4 - 1:4
1:5 - 1:5
1:6 - 1:6
1:7 - 1:7
1:8 - 1:8
1:9 - 1:9
1:10 - 1:10
1:11 - 1:11
1:12 - 1:12
1:13 - 1:13
1:14 - 1:14
1:15 - 1:15
1:16 - 1:16
1:17 - 1:17

The beams of our house are cedar - Perhaps it was under a cedar tree whose vast limbs were interwoven with the ברות beroth, a tree of the cypress kind, where they now sat. And this natural bower recommended itself to the poet’s attention by its strength, loftiness, and its affording them a shady cover and cool retreat. How natural to break out into the praise of a bower, by whose branches and foliage we are shielded from the intense heat of the sun! Even the shelter of a great rock to a weary land is celebrated by the pen of the first of prophets and greatest of poets, Isa 32:2.

With this chapter the first day of the marriage ceremonies is supposed to end.