Song of Solomon 1:1-17
The book of Song of Solomon is a metaphor of the love between Jesus and children of God.
1:1-4 A young women speaks of her first true love and how it is sweeter than anything else she has experienced. She is in love with a good and humble man, and serves as a metaphor of our love for Jesus. However, this girl's brothers did not understand her relationship, and wanted to separate her from this man. They wanted to remove her from the family land, where she worked as a shepherd, and place her somewhere she could not interact with the young man.
But this young woman captured the attention of the king, and he brought her into his household.
1:5-6 The young woman (called the Shulamite) felt very different from the women in the king's household. She was more like a wildflower, different, unique because she was not born in society. She was tanned and lovely from working in the sun all of her life.
1:7 She longed to join the young man she had fallen in love with.
1:8-10 The king was enthralled by her, he compared her beauty to his chariots of war.
1:11-16 The king planned to array her in his finest ornaments.
1:16 Despite the attention of the king, the Shulamite woman only wanted her first love.
