>[!Properties]+ Resources >[Gospel Library](https://churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/song/3?lang=eng) | [Citation Index](https://scriptures.byu.edu/#07a03::c07a03) | [Bible Hub](https://biblehub.com/song_of_solomon/3.htm) | [Inline JST](https://scripturetoolbox.com/html/ic/Song_of_Solomon/3.html) | [Strong's](https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/sng/3/1/ss1/) >>[!AI]- AI Context >>The chapter is a poetic expression by a female speaker, likely in Jerusalem, addressing the daughters of Jerusalem and Zion, illustrating her passionate search for her beloved and admiration for King Solomon. > >>[!AI]- AI Child Summary >>A girl was looking for the person she loved and found him after searching everywhere. She was so happy when she finally found him and didn't want to let him go. > >>[!AI]- AI Summary >>A woman searches the city at night for her beloved, whom she deeply desires to find. After an initial search and asking the watchmen if they have seen him, she finally finds him and brings him to her mother's house. The chapter then shifts to a description of King Solomon, his majestic chariot, and his royal procession, highlighting themes of love and admiration. > >#Gospel/Love #Gospel/SeekAndFind #Gospel/Marriage ###### 1 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. ###### 2 2 I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. ###### 3 3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? ###### 4 4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. ###### 5 5 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. ###### 6 6 Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? ###### 7 7 Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel. ###### 8 8 They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. ###### 9 9 King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. ###### 10 10 He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. ###### 11 11 Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.