Peace and joy in marriage from Song of Solomon.
9 April 2023, For the wedding of Sean and Abbygale, Harvester Reformational Church, Cape Town, preached by Apostle Aje Pelser

Reading:
Son 6:1 Where has your beloved gone, O fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned aside, That we may seek him with you?
Son 6:2 My beloved has gone to his garden, To the beds of spices, To feed his flock in the gardens, And to gather lilies.
Son 6:3 I am my beloved’s, And my beloved is mine. He feeds his flock among the lilies.
Son 6:4 O my love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah, Lovely as Jerusalem, Awesome as an army with banners!
Son 6:5 Turn your eyes away from me, For they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats Going down from Gilead.
Son 6:6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep Which have come up from the washing; Every one bears twins, And none is barren among them.
Son 6:7 Like a piece of pomegranate Are your temples behind your veil.
Son 6:8 There are sixty queens And eighty concubines, And virgins without number.
Son 6:9 My dove, my perfect one, Is the only one, The only one of her mother, The favorite of the one who bore her. The daughters saw her And called her blessed, The queens and the concubines, And they praised her.
Son 6:10 Who is she who looks forth as the morning, Fair as the moon, Clear as the sun, Awesome as an army with banners?
Son 6:11 I went down to the garden of nuts To see the verdure of the valley, To see whether the vine had budded And the pomegranates had bloomed.
Son 6:12 Before I was even aware, My soul had made me As the chariots of my noble people.
Son 6:13 Return, return, O Shulamite; Return, return, that we may look upon you! What would you see in the Shulamite— As it were, the dance of the two camps?

Solomon: H8010 shelômôh (shel-o-mo’)
From H7965; peaceful; Shelomoh, David’s successor: – Solomon.

Shulamite = “the perfect” or “the peaceful”
H7759 shûlammı̂yth
BDB Definition:
1) the heroine lover of the Song of Songs (of Solomon)
Part of Speech: adjective proper

Characteristics of the Husband Son 6:2
1. He is Beloved: “My beloved”
2. He tends his garden of influence: “has gone to his garden,” Gen. 2:15 tend and keep
3. He trades in spices and has access to nations: “To the beds of spices,” Rev. 22:2
4. He is a good and consistent shepherd: “To feed his flock in the gardens,” John 10
5. He can gather beauty in any situation, lilies in the mud: “And to gather lilies.” Son. 2:2; mat. 6:28
6. He is a charioteer in God’s army: “My soul had made me As the chariots of my noble people.” Jer. 12:5

Characteristics of the Wife Son 6:4
1. She is beloved: O my love,
2. She is set in a beautiful surrounding on a mountain – a city on a hill: “you are as beautiful as Tirzah. The comparison may be due to the charm of its situation. The name may possibly be derived from rācāh, “to delight.” [ISBE] mat. 5:14
3. She rules with peace and focuses worship to God like the city of God from heaven: “Lovely as Jerusalem,” Isa. 4:4
4. She is a strong force and raises standards: “Awesome as an army with banners!” Isa. 59:19
5. “As it were, the dance of the two camps” Gen. 32:1,2 place of Jacob’s encounter with angels.
6. “Blessed and fruitful” Gen. 1:27,28