Annotated Outline of Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon

1. The Shulamite separated from her lover by Solomon and taken into the royal tents (1:1-11)  (__Song__1:1-2:17)
   1. She soliloquizes about her beloved shepherd lover  (__Song__1:1-4)
   2. The Shulamite answers the court-ladies who disdain her  (__Song__1:5-6)
   100. She soliloquizes about her shepherd lover  (__Song__1:7)
   4. The court-laidies answer  (__Song__1:8)
   5. Solomon's admiration of her  (__Song__1:9-11)
   6. The Shulamite and her shepherd lover together (1:12-2:6)  (__Song__1:12-14)
      1. The Shulamite speaks  (__Song__1:12-14)
   7. The shepherd speaks  (__Song__1:15)
   8. The Shulamite speaks  (__Song__1:16-2:1)
   1. The shepherd speaks  (__Song__2:2)
   10. The Sulamite speaks  (__Song__2:3-6)
   11. Separated from her shepherd lover and back in the royal tents she tells the court-ladies of her love (2:7-3:5)  (__Song__2:7)
       1. She charges them not to excite her love for Solomon until she herself desires it  (__Song__2:7)
   50. She tells them of her first invitation to go out with her shepherd lover  (__Song__2:8-14)
   13. Hindered by her brothers who give her work in the vineyards  (__Song__2:15)
   14. She tells how she waited for her lover to come back again in the evening  (__Song__2:16-17)
2. She tells of her search for her lover and how she inquired for him of the watchmen  (__Song__3:1-11)
   1. She relates how she found him soon afterwards  (__Song__3:4)
   2. She again charges the court-ladies not to awake her love for Solomon till she please (cp. 2:7 and 8:4)  (__Song__3:5)
   100. The Shulamite and her beloved shepherd lover together again (3:6-5:1).  (Procession of Solomon's court back to Jerusalem).  (__Song__3:6-11)
        1. The inhabitants of Jerusalem see the procession approaching:their remarks of the procession  (__Song__3:6-11)
3. The beloved shepherd who has followed the court, comes to Jerusalem to rescue the Shula-mite.  He obtains an interview, and again ex-presses his delight in her.  (Contrast his modesty with Solomon's flatteries of 6:4-10 and 7:1-9)  (__Song__4:1-16)
   1. The Shulamite proposes  to return, referring to 2:17  (__Song__4:6)
   2. The beloved shepherd immediately offers assistance, emboldened by her beauty (vss. 7-11) and by her faithfulness (vss. 12-16)  (__Song__4:7-15)
   100. The Shulamite declares that all she has is for his pleasure  (__Song__4:16)
4. The beloved shepherd responds "I am coming"  (__Song__5:1-16)
   1. The Shulamite and her beloved apart (5:2-8:4)  (__Song__5:2-8)
      1. Her colloquies with the court-ladies (5:2-6:3)  (__Song__5:2-8)
         1. The Shulamite tells the court-ladies a dream she once had about her beloved  (__Song__5:2-8)
   2. The court-ladies, astonished at her love, ask, "What is there in thy beloved more than another beloved?"  (__Song__5:9)
   100. She describes him to them-"Such is my beloved"  (__Song__5:10-16)
5. The court-ladies wish to see such a man; and ask, "Where is he, that we may seek him?"  (__Song__6:1-8:14)
   1. The Shulamite evades their question suspecting their motives  (__Song__6:2-3)
   2. Her colloquies with Solomon (6:4-8:4)  (__Song__6:4-10)
      1. Solomon comes forward with flatteries.  Cp. Ps. 12:3; 36:2; 55:21; 78:36; Pr. 5:3  (__Song__6:4-10)
   100. The Shulamite explains that her meeting with him was not intentional  (__Song__6:11-12)
   4. Solomon: "Return, return," as she seeks to go away.  The Shulamite: "What is there to look at in me?"  Solomon renews his flatteries to the Shulamite  (__Song__6:13-7:9)
   5. The Shulamite rejects Solomon; asks lover to take her home; adjures ladies not to excite her feelings, as in 2:7  (__Song__7:10-8:4)
   6. The conclusion: the Shulamite restored.  She returns home from Solomon with her lover, and is seen by her brothers approaching (8:5-14)  (__Song__8:5)
      1. The companions of the shepherd see them approaching  (__Song__8:5)
   7. The Shulamite and the shepherd visit the spot where they first plighted their troth; and renew their vows  (__Song__8:6-7)
   8. The brothers confer as to their sister's dowry.  "What shall we do with her?  If she be a wall (i.e. virtuous) we will adorn her.  If she be a door(accessible to any) we will shut her up."  (__Song__8:8-9)
   1. The Shulamite: "I am a wall" (not a door).  Solomon has many vineyards; I will keep my own  (__Song__8:10-12)
   10. The beloved shepherd asks her to tell them the story  (__Song__8:13)
   11. The Shulamite owns him as her beloved.  He is to hasten to her now and ever.  No longer over the mountains which separated them (2:8, 17), for these have given place to the mountains of delight  (__Song__8:14)