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1. Song of Solomon is introduced with the following passage.
"The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's"
2. The Song of Songs is a highly poetic and figurative script and is often difficult to read and understand. One thing that often confuses readers is the constant interchanging between the terms "my love" and "my beloved". To distinguish between the two, what person is referred to as "my beloved" in Song of Solomon?
3. Often times, the Song of Solomon describes the way marriage is supposed to be according to God's intentions. One passage describes this quite accurately, but what is supposed to fill in the blank?
"I adjure you, O daughters of ___________
that you stir not up nor awaken love
until it please."
4. Complete the following quote that the Shulammite woman narrated regarding a dream she had about her husband:
"By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but ________________."
5. "Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' ___________ within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead."
It is evident that the Shulammite woman is a gorgeous woman. The missing word from this passage is a physical feature on the Shulammite woman. What physical feature of the Shulammite woman is being described in this passage?
6. The Shulammite woman maintained her purity and virginity for Solomon whom she sincerely wanted to be her future husband:
"A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a ________________."
How does this biblical quote end?
7. Like any marriage in society, biblical marriages were not perfect and without their share of problems. Solomon and the Shulammite woman had their problems as well. At one point, the Shulammite woman realizes that she may have fallen out of love with her husband.
The following passage describes the Shulammite woman's plea for assistance to find her husband during a time of severe marital issues:
"Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee."
From whom is the Shulammite woman seeking help?
8. Following the marital difficulties of Solomon and the Shulammite woman, their marriage and love for one another matures and becomes stronger with time.
One such passage that shows this maturity is one in which Solomon describes his love for the Shulammite woman's beauty. Solomon describes how her stomach is "like a heap of wheat" that is set about with what type of flowers?
9. Song of Solomon 8:8-12 describe the past and the present of Solomon and the Shulammite woman. Who is saying the following about the Shulammite woman prior to her desire to get married?
"If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar."
10. Song of Solomon ends with a conversation between Solomon and the Shulammite woman describing the love they still had for each other. How does the Shulammite woman finish the following passage?
"Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of _________.
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