Love Is An Essential Thing - [Song Of Solomon 8:5-14]

Well, good morning, and it is again a delight to be with all of you today. And I've had a great time being with you this weekend. And so thank you for your encouragement to me. And I'm grateful for what God is doing up here and excited about what the future holds for this wonderful church.

Let me invite you to take your Bible and join me in the book the Song of Solomon chapter 8. Song of Solomon chapter 8 a book of Hebrew poetry. So we need to keep that in mind as we try to understand and interpret the various figures of speech.

Also a book that I think has to be understood in a sweeping flow. From Genesis chapter 2 through Genesis chapter 3 to Ephesians chapter 5. In other words I think that what you have the Song of Solomon is a poetic Rendering of what God Intends for marriage to be as it is beautifully expressed in the book of Ephesians chapter 5 which we examined over the last several days.

Several years ago my wife and I had the joy of being part of the newlywed game actually. It was older folks that were doing the newlywed game. And and I must say with some degree of pride, and I'll need to repent of this later.

We destroyed all the other teams. I mean we absolutely demolished them waxed them. Kicked them to the curb slammed them. It was not pretty. We so annihilated all of them and one of the reasons was the two questions in particular just were right down our alley and Allowed us then to carry the gold ring across the finish line.

One of the questions was they asked my wife. What is the last thing that your husband has fixed in your home? Well, I had a mechanical bypass at birth. So I don't fix anything. I can't cook. I can barely change a light bulb which is very dangerous because you might get shocked and it will burn your hand if you do it at The wrong time and so I just don't do anything like that.

And so they're asking me this question, and I'm thinking what have I done in the last week nothing. What have I done in the last month. Nothing. What have I done in the last six months. Nothing. What have I done in the last year.

Nothing? What have I done like our entire married life. Nothing and so I can't come up with anything. But I'm trying because obviously she's got something there on the card. And so finally the moderator said well, you've got to say something.

We're going to move on and I said well Can you say nothing? The crowd went into histrionics with applause because she held up a card nothing. She absolutely knew exactly what her husband had done in terms of fixing things around the house.

But then we came to the bonus question and the bonus question was what is your husband's favorite book of the Bible? Which is a really good question and one of the ladies said well my husband's favorite book is John.

But he said Romans and another said Philippians. But he said Revelation and then they came to me. And I have to again confess to some pride here because I said you know this is really unfair. Because I know that sitting in her lap on that card on the other side.

She has written down The Song of Solomon and sure enough she held up the card the Song of Solomon. Now you say why do you love this book? I love this book because it's about romance and marriage. It is a book that depicts beautifully in poetic meter the relationship that should exist between a man and a woman that is of course analogous to the Relationship that should exist between Christ and his church.

And so I have written actually two different books on Song of Solomon including the one that your pastor mentioned a moment ago God on sex. It's a popular verse-by-verse study going through the Song of Solomon.

And so I thought it would be appropriate for us this weekend to at least look at one section of Scripture and so in chapter 8 verses 5 through 14 you come to the final paragraph the final section of the Song of Solomon now if you said well Where is that book?

Well Psalms? Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon you get into the prophetic books Isaiah Jeremiah hook it back to the left and you will find it there and what you have is the in a sense The Old Testament counterpart to 1st Corinthians chapter 13 because if I were to ask you on an exam Where are the most significant chapters in the Bible on the topic of love?

Well, you should say 1st Corinthians 13 and you might even also add appropriately 1st John chapter 4. But in the Old Testament, it would be Song of Solomon chapter 8 verses 5 through 14. Which in particular are talking about love within the covenant relationship of marriage.

And so look at what we read beginning in verse 5 of chapter 8. And I'll kind of make a little comment along the way then go back and walk us through these verses verse-by-verse. Who is that coming up from the wilderness leaning on her beloved?

And so you have a picture of Solomon and Shulamith his wife as they are coming up in the royal chariot and people see them and she's leaning Against him in an affectionate kind of a way under the apple tree the sweetheart tree of the ancient world.

I awakened you there. Your mother was in labor with you there. She bore you who was in labor, then she begins to speak. Set me as a seal upon your heart. Set me as a seal upon your arm. For love is strong as death.

Jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire the very flame of The Lord so says the ESV will come back and address that phrase in a moment. Many waters cannot quench love. Neither can floods drown it.

The man offered for love all the wealth of his house. He would be utterly despised. Well now her brothers stepped in and speak and this is basically something of a flashback. We have a little sister and she has no breath.

She sees a small girl. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for? What will we do in anticipation of the day that she is going to marry? Well, if she is a wall, we will build upon her a battlement of silver.

But if she's a door we will enclose her with boards of cedar. Well, she hears the challenge that has come from her brothers. And so she responds. I was a wall. Now my breasts are like towers. Then I was in the eyes as one.

I was then his eyes as one who finds peace. The Hebrew word shalom. Solomon she says had a vineyard at Belham on. He let out the vineyard to keepers. Each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.

But my vineyard my very own is before me. You all saw them may have the thousand and the keepers of its fruit 200. Then he responds the only time he speaks at the end of the book. It's one verse. Oh you who dwell in the gardens with companions listening for your voice?

Let me hear it. Then she responds in conclusion make haste my beloved and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices. Heard the story of a young teenage boy that went to the drugstore.

Walked up to the druggist. He said I would like to purchase from you three boxes of candy. One pound three pound and a five pound box of candy. The drug has said well I can accommodate you but you might if I asked why and he said I'll be glad to tell you I have a date tonight with the most beautiful girl in our high school.

I mean, she's a fox. She's a babe. She is drop-dead gorgeous. And I've been in love with her for years and I I finally worked up enough nerve to ask her out for a date. And she said yes now. Unfortunately, the first date is going over to her house.

Got to meet her parents. But after we get to the house and after we have dinner together if I can maneuver things I'm gonna get her out of the house out on their front porch because there's a swing out there.

And it's really quite romantic and if I can get out there with her alone. Well, I have some real goals for our first date and I'll tell you it before the evenings over. I get to hold her hand for a while.

I'm going to give her that one pound box of candy as a gift when I leave but you know, I I will tell you I do have higher goals than than that for our first date and and if I If I get my arm around her get to squeeze and hug her for a while.

I'm gonna give her the three pound a box of candy as a gift, but I'll tell you it before the night's over. Things go well, and I get to give her a big old kiss right on her mouth. I am going to give her that five pound box of candy as a gift.

Well, the druggist sold him his three box of candy. Wished him good luck and. And he went home and he did now listen to me guys I don't care if you're these teenage boys over here, or you're the oldest codger in this room.

He did what smart guys do before they date their girl. He took a shower and he used some shampoo and some soap. He got out of the shower and he brushed his teeth. He used mouthwash. He put on deodorant.

He put on cologne. He put on nice neat clean clothes and guys I've come to understand. They always like us better if we smell good and taste good. They just do and so he did what a smart guy does before he dates his girl went over to the house and they visit for a few minutes in the family room and then the mother said time for dinner and.

So they came into the dining room. They sat down and The father looked at the young man and said son. Why don't why don't you ask the blessing? Folks this young man asked a blessing. I mean this young man knew how to pray.

He prayed five. He prayed 10 he prayed 15 minutes for that meal. Finally, he said amen and when he did his date looked at him and she said my goodness. I had no idea that you were so spiritual. He said yes, I had no idea your daddy was the druggist either.

Love is a wonderful thing. Love can be a dangerous thing and love can even be a confusing thing and love is especially a Confusing thing when we get it confused with this thing called Infatuation. Came across an article just a couple of years ago that sets a good foundation for us moving into the text and it draws some really insightful contrast between love and Infatuation.

Listen very carefully. Infatuation leaps into bloom. But love usually takes root and grows one day at a time. Infatuation is accompanied by a sense of uncertainty. You are stimulated and thrilled. But not really happy.

You are miserable when he is absent and you can't wait until you see her again. Love begins with a feeling of security. You're warm with a sense of his nearness even when he is away. Miles do not separate you.

You want her near but near or far. You know that she is yours and you can wait. Infatuation says we must get married right away. I Can't risk losing him, but love says don't rush into anything. You are sure of one another.

You can plan your future with confidence. Infatuation has an element of sexual excitement. If you're honest, you will discover it is difficult to enjoy one another unless you know. It will end in intimacy, but love is the maturing of a friendship and I love this statement.

You must be friends. Before you can truly be lovers. Infatuation lacks confidence when he's away. You wonder if he's with another girl when she's away you wonder if she's with a another guy sometimes.

You even check. Love means trust. You never or see me you may fall into infatuation. But you never really fall in love. Infatuation might lead you to do things for which you might be sorry, but love never will.

Love lifts you up. It makes you look up. It makes you think up. It makes you a better person than you were before. Solomon thinks love is so important. It is the final theme of this eighth chapter book and what I want to do to walk you through these verses very quickly.

And show you Excuse me about 12 different facets of love that you can find in this final section of the Song of Solomon number one love is Public. It begins there in verse 5 who is this coming up from the wilderness leaning on her beloved?

Solomon and Shulamith are in full public display as they are riding in the royal chariot. She's reclining against his shoulder showing that she is both relaxed in his presence. She is also secure in his presence now the fact that they're coming up out of the wilderness may have some symbolic Significance some that said perhaps it is picking up on the theme of Israel and their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness.

And now it's being applied to marriage. You say what would you why would they say that? Well, if you read through the book, you know that for the most part it's been good. But in chapter 5 they do hit some rough spots and they begin to have some difficulties.

And you see the fact the matter is every marriage no matter how good it is. It's going to have some bad days. They're going to be some difficult times and the issue is what do you do? When the difficult times come do you throw in the towel or do you stay with it?

And do you have that? Unrelenting commitment that no matter what we are in this to the end and we're in this for life. They've stayed through it. They've worked through their difficult times. And so in a sense, they're saying we've come through the tough times and we're still together.

And we've come through the tough times and we are glad for the whole world to know that we love each other and that we Belong together again. I think what you have in the Song of Solomon is a beautiful poetic Description of marriage as it was intended back in Genesis chapter 2 before the fall and as we then see it in Ephesians Chapter 5 where you have a wife submitting and a husband loving his wife.

Well, and so the effects of the curse in a sense have been reversed. They've been done done and now you see a redeemed relationship with a man and a woman wonderfully together. Frederica Matthews Green says this and I think it's a brilliant statement quote.

Women need men to call us up toward the highest moral principles. But men need women to call them down to the warmth of human love and respect for gentler Sensibilities, it is clear that we need each other.

You would almost think someone had planned it that way and so there's a sense in which in this book Solomon and Suleiman from the beginning in the middle and the end want us to understand and know that they are indeed Committed to each other and that they love one another.

Love Is Public and the Marriage Picture of Genesis 2 and Ephesians 5

Love is public. But secondly love is private verse 5 continues under the apple tree. I Awakened you and it's a feminine verb. So it is the bride the wife Shulamith who is speaking under the apple tree.

I awakened you and there your mother who was in labor with you there. She bore you the one who was in labor three times in the book chapter 2 verse 7 Chapter 3 verse 5 and chapter 8 verse 4. We are told not to awaken love.

Until it is the right time that is a way of telling us that we are to avoid premarital sex we're to avoid Extramarital sex we're to avoid a natural sex. No sex is a good gift from a great God, but it's to be enjoyed within the covenant of marriage.

Well in the ancient world the apple tree was the sweetheart tree. And so in a sense in a very tactful and in a very tasteful way. She is inviting him to be with her under the apple tree. I Awakened you it is there that your mother was in labor with you.

There she who bore you was in Labor, and so she's simply extending to him an invitation for intimacy because public affection gentlemen Will most often lead to private Intimacy because when a woman feels secure in her relationship with her husband Then she also feels secure in giving herself to him in the love relationship.

So yes love begins publicly. But love also has thank God and praise his name that wonderful private component as well. But number three love is also Personal look at the first phrase there in verse six set me as a seal upon your heart.

The seal was a extremely important and personal item in the ancient world you would put your seal on something as an indication of Ownership you would put your seal upon those things that were valuable Possessions to you and so Shulamith is simply saying I want to know that I am indeed your most personal and your most valuable Possession.

She wants to be a seal but note where she wants to be a seal. I want to be a seal up on your heart so in saying that she is simply affirming I want to know that you have a Unbreakable devotion and you have an unbreakable commitment to me and that most precious place in your life is reserved specifically.

Yes, even exclusively For me set me as a seal where upon Your heart love is personal. Number four. Love is protected. Set me as a seal upon your heart. Set me as a seal Upon your arm. Well, of course the arm is a symbol of strength.

It's also a symbol of security when you take your arm and you wrap it around someone and draw them close to you. And so Shulamith again is saying I want to experience and know your strength your security.

I want to know that I am indeed a personal possession of yours. You see in true love in True love there's always a sense of security. There's always a sense of safety. You actually have the ability To just rest and enjoy that Relationship and I'd also add this it's just a word of insight.

I think that true love Does have a protective attitude. I do believe that you want to protect. You want to use your strength to shield your mate from anything? That would be hurtful painful destructive and damaging in that Relationship a little food for thought here.

One of the most lethal weapons that many times afflicts marital relationships is Sarcasm and chipping away at them with sarcastic barbs. It'll tell you something that is especially Lethal when you do it in front of other people.

No, you and I should be about the business of taking pride in each other we should desire to Protect each other. We should indeed have a love that seeks to to to keep them away from anything That would hurt them or harm them or bring any kind of damage to them.

Now. I will be the first to acknowledge That is something we grow to do over time. It is not something that we know initially are in the early stages of marriage at least many of us don't I I know in My own life as I shared the other night my marital radar system Was just under construction in the early days of our marriage and the fact matter is it did not move forward Very well very quickly.

One example that just to this day. I still can't believe I did when we first got married. One Saturday night we were going to have dinner and Charlotte put on the table some really nice looking sandwiches and then she put down this Tupperware thing that when you open it up and look inside if you had a a great imagination and You had the aid of a magnifying glass.

You might think that what was in there at one time resembled potato chips. But they were so crumbled up. You see when we first got married My wife was the queen of frugality now, she grew out of that but when we first got married She was extremely frugal and she would throw nothing away.

She would save everything. Of course, we were poor. So it was helpful. And so she saved these crumbled up Stale potato chips. And so I looked in there and I said I Don't want these. They're too small and they're stale.

I Want some nice potato chips and in Sweetheart when I came by the pantry I looked in there and I saw a brand new bag of Lay's potato chips that have never been touched by human hands and I would like those and so my wife said well sweetheart When these are gone, you can have those.

Well, that was not the answer that I was looking for at all and so I said well Darling I Don't want these. That they're too small and they're stale and I'd like some nice new crispy potato chips and She said well sugar dumpling.

When this container is empty you can have some of those. And so I did something a man would only do in his first year of marriage. I Stood up from the table. I took her Tupperware thing and I dumped those potato chips in the kitchen floor.

Well, I know ladies easy back. I know I know I know such a man ought to die. I don't understand. And I said to her it's empty now. Why don't you go get the other ones. Oh, no, I know that's that's double death.

I understand that. And of course none of you will be surprised to know that number one she did not go get the other ones and Number two, she didn't do a number of things for several days around the house.

I mean it it was just not good. And so you saw that wasn't very protective and very no. No, it was not sensitive. It was not protective. It was just something you'll do when you're 21 years old and you just don't know any better.

I mean, you know, those are the kind of things you learn in those old early years. And so I've learned over time to pay more attention to where she is pay more attention to what she needs pay more attention to her Personal dispositions and moods as they come and go and up and down and we're all wired that way.

And so I've come to understand that there is indeed a protectiveness that ought to be extended in Relationships that are very very very tender. All right number five. Love is also Possessive like what he says there again in verse 6 love is as strong as death and Jealousy is as fierce as the grave.

Love is as strong as death. Jealousy as cruel or unyielding as the grave. Now, what does he mean by that? Well, first of all, I think he means this just like death is universal. So is love and Just like death is unavoidable.

So is love he uses the word strong here. The only time that it is used in the entire song of Solomon has the idea of an immovable defender. One commentator said it is an irresistible Assailant quote when love calls its siren sound is so compelling you cannot resist it.

Love never releases those whom it has once truly seized. We're going to see in just a moment that this kind of love that is present within a marital relationship. Is a love actually given to us by God, but there is a troubling phrase here that we have to unwrap.

He says and love is is is jealousy. Comparing it to jealousy. It jealousy is as fierce as The grave. There's that Hebrew parallelism going on here love is as strong as death. Jealousy is as fierce as the grave.

So in a sense he uses the word jealousy. To give us some kind of insight into the word of love now in our English way of thinking Jealousy is usually a negative word, isn't it? We don't think of jealousy in terms of being positive.

Although it's actually using a positive sense in James chapter 4 where the Bible speaks of God having a jealous love for us. In other words, he's not going to share us with anyone. We were to be devoted to him and to him only it and he wants that kind of exclusive relationship.

Well, that's what it means here. Jealousy is parallel to that spray strong as death. And so it speaks here of a strong emotional attachment a strong Emotional attachment to a particular person or it can be to a particular thing.

But here of course is talking about the kind of strong Emotional attachment that you should have for your man and in the context of this strong emotional Attachment then you have the ideas of possessiveness.

You have the idea of exclusivity and what he's saying is love Swallows down men and women once it lays hold of them so possessively and certainly it's just like the grave in fact page Patterson said this way in godly love a Righteous jealousy is as hard or Inevitable as is the grave it will not let go.

In other words once the grave has your body. It's not giving you back. It has you and it has you for ever. When I was in high school, perhaps like many of you I Had coaches that took great delight in putting before us a theme that went something like this when the going gets tough.

What the tough get going now that may be true. It probably is but this I do know for sure. When the going gets tough love keeps going. Love will not quit. It will not throw in the towel it will not walk away even when things are hard and rough and tough love keeps going.

I've often said and it is absolutely true that in the 33 years almost 33 years that we've been married. Not one time not one time. Not one time. Have Charlotte or I ever considered a divorce? Murder has entered our mind on several occasions.

But the idea of divorce has not even one time ever ever ever Entered our mind now. Here's what's good about that. You are going to have some bad days. You are going to have days again. I have permission where you have to call the church on Sunday morning and Tell the church I'm not gonna be able to be there and you to get this person this person to take my place because my my wife is Not feeling well this morning and I need to be here with her.

And she wasn't feeling well. You saw what you have a headache. No. You have a stomachache throwing up. No. What you have she had a crying spell. She had locked herself in the bathroom and she was wailing.

You said what'd you do? I don't know but it wasn't good. I Mean she's in there with one of those you have women can sometimes cry where they almost start hyperventilating, you know. She's doing that for like 45 minutes and I I mean I can't get out of the bathroom.

You see you're kidding me. Oh, I'm not kidding you happen again. It happened this time when a couple came to the front door. We're living in Dallas and and this couple that we had been mentoring. Oh Yes, we mentored them before they got married and we showed them how to have a godly wonderful Christ filled Holy Spirit anointed marriage and so one Saturday, I don't know what happens, but she's back in the bathroom doors locked.

She's doing the cry and here comes Tim and Cindy. So I go back there and I said Charlotte get out of that bathroom. I said Tim and Cindy are at the front door. You take care of it. So I go the front door and I said, hey guys, how you doing?

Oh, it's great. Just thought we'd stop by so I'm glad you did. You know, it's just Kind of a good time. Oh. That's okay. We understand come back later. Yeah, come back later. What time about four weeks from now?

About Four weeks, I'm pretty confident that we will have worked through the issues here and fix them and you're saying you're telling me that as a man who has been called by God to preach the gospel and Model for all of us what it means to walk with Jesus and have a good marriage a good family.

You've had things like that. Oh, yeah, I've had things like that. If you say you haven't you're a bald-faced liar. We all have things like that we all have bad days. Question. What do you do when they come?

Well, I got news for you if the back door is nailed shut and there's no walking away. You basically have one of two alternatives in life now you are stuck. Because divorce is not an option. The back door is nailed shut.

You're stuck now. You can be stuck and be sad. Or you can be stuck and be happy. I don't know about you all but I like happy a lot better than sad I I do but guess what happy requires work. Happy requires Hanging in there.

No matter what and he tells us here that love is Possessed it won't let go it will not let go. But now number six, he tells us love is powerful verse 6 its flashes are flashes of fire the very flame of the Lord.

The NIV says love burns like blazing fire like a Mighty flame and so the focus and the emphasis upon its power. And its intensity the intensity of the flame it it is a flashing fire. It is the very flame of the Lord.

Now, that's how the ESV translates it. Most of you don't have a translation that has the word Lord in it. It's not in the King James. It's not in the New American Standard. It's not in the NIV. It's not in the New King James.

You say why. Well, here's something very interesting. Technically the name of God does not appear in two books of the Bible. Esther Song of Solomon. You say it's right there in the grass babe. I'm gonna get there.

But technically the name Elohim the name Yathway. It's not in the Song of Solomon. So some have said what an interesting book. God's nowhere to be found. No, I know I would beg to differ in chapter 4 verse 1 through chapter 5 verse 1 you have a beautiful description of their wedding night and It says at the end of chapter 5 in verse 1 Someone suddenly speaks from the outside and essence says what I see taking place.

Has my blessing and my pleasure and I am glad and I I rejoice in what I see and so I raised the question who would have been in their wedding chamber on their wedding night other than Solomon and Shulamite but God and so I believe God is the one who puts his hand of approval upon what he sees in their Wedding chamber on their wedding night.

I believe God is there though. He may not be mentioned specifically by name. Well here in this text the phrase there that you see in verse 6 the flame of the Lord. The word flame is the word. But it has a very interesting Suffix and at the very end of the word for flame in Hebrew is an unusual addition that we would pronounce YAH YAH, not Yahweh YAH.

But doesn't take a lot of imagination to realize that if you want to speak Yathway in a shorthand way you would simply use the first part of his name YAH. And I actually think the ESV is correct. I think the ESV has captured what is being said here and what he is saying is in Marriage as we seek the Lord Jesus Christ as the head of our home and the Lord of our lives.

God will himself give us a love that is like a blazing fire. That cannot be put out. You say you really believe that. No, I believe that I have the joy of experiencing it. I Loved my wife Charlotte when we got married at the age of 21 and 19.

I really believe I loved her as much as any 21 year old can love anyone. But today I'm 54 and she is 52. We've been married for almost 33 years and I will tell you something if I were to say to you this morning.

Well, when we got married, I loved her and today I still love her. It does not communicate at all. Thankfully in the English language. We have the word very and so I can say to you this morning when we got married I loved her.

But today, oh, I love her very very very very much. In fact, it's almost unfair To compare the one back then with the one today. I did not know. I Did not know that you could love someone as much as I love my wife Charlotte.

And I'm absolutely convinced that that love is a gift that has been given to to her and to me by God. In other words, there is a love in marriage that is kindled by the Lord. And it is such a fervent flame that nothing on earth can extinguish it.

There's nothing on earth that can put it out. It's not by accident. He tells us number seven that love is Persevering. Look at the very next phrase many waters cannot quench love. Neither can the floods drown it out.

Came across a little article in the paper some years ago entitled and you wonder Why it didn't last? Listen to what a insightful person said. She married him because he was such a strong man. But she divorced him because he was such a dominating male.

He married her because she was so fragile and petite. He divorced her because she was so weak and helpless. She married him because he knows how to provide a good living. She divorced him because all he thinks about is business.

He married her because she reminds me of my mother. He divorced her because she's getting more like her mother every day. She married him because he was happy and romantic. She divorced him because he was shiftless and fun-loving.

He married her because she was steady and sensible. He divorced her because she was boring and dull. She married him because he was the life of the party. She divorced him because he never wants to come home from the party.

Solomon's telling us about this phrase that marriage is meant to last and so is love. It is not for a season. It is for a Lifetime. It is something that God gives and it cannot be stopped. Many waters Cannot quench love.

Neither can floods drown it out. Car said it this way the tenacious staying power of love is set against these tides and Perennial rivers which are unable to wash away love or put out its sparks. Why can the many waters of trial and trouble and difficulty and heartbreak not wash away this kind of love?

Because as we just saw this love is a flame given to us by God. Number eight love is also Priceless. He says there in verse 7 the second part if a man offered for love all the wealth of his house He would be utterly despised in other words.

He's simply saying love doesn't have a price tag. And love is not for sale. By its very nature love must be given. Sex can be bought. But love must be given and so he says look if a man offered for love all that he has People would consider him a fool.

They would despise him. They would scorn him and he would be subject to public ridicule. Why. Because love can not be bought it is a priceless thing. Given to us by God number nine. Love is pure. I Mentioned as I was reading the text earlier that probably verses 8 and following 8 through 12 is a is a flashback.

It looks back to Shulamith youth and her Initial meeting with Solomon and Solomon and so her brothers are probably the ones speaking here in verse 8 as they say. Well think back to when she was little we have a little sister and she has no breath.