Song of Solomon 3:9

“King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.] The word translated chariot is only used in this place; some render it a bride chamberf190; others a nuptial bedf191, such as is carried from place to place; it is used in the Misnahf192 for the nuptial, bed, or open chariot, in which the bride was carried from her father’s house to her husband’s. The Septuagint render it by foreion, a word near in sound to that in the Hebrew text, and was the “lectica” of the ancients, somewhat like our “sedan”; some of which were adorned with gold and precious stones, and had silver feetf193, or pillars, as follows: it seems upon the whole to be the nuptial chariot in which, according to…”

“The principal and central action of the Song; the bride’s entry into the city of David, and her marriage there with the king. Jewish interpreters regard this part of the poem as symbolizing the “first” entrance of the Church of the Old Testament into the land of promise, and her spiritual espousals, and communion with the King of kings, through the erection of Solomon’s Temple and the institution of its acceptable worship. Christian fathers, in a like spirit, make most things here refer to the espousals of the Church with Christ in the Passion and Resurrection, or the communion of Christian souls with Him in meditation thereon. Song of Solomon 3:6-11 Two or more citizens of Jerusalem, or the…”

“A chariot - In which the royal bridegroom and bride might ride together in state. By this chariot he seems to understand the word of Christ dispensed by his ministers, whereby Christ rides triumphantly in the world, and believers are carried into heavenly glory. Of Lebanon - Of cedars, which wood being incorruptible, doth fitly signify the word of the gospel, which endureth forever, Pe1 1:25. Song of Solomon (Canticles) 3:10”

“3:9-10 The materials out of which King Solomon’s carriage was made befit his wealth and power, including the same expensive Lebanese wood that was used in building the Temple (1 Kgs 5:5-6). • decorated with love by the young women of Jerusalem: Beyond all his splendor, Solomon was admired and served with love, even by his servants.”

“a chariot: or, a bed, Appiryon, rendered by Montanus, sponsarum ithalamum, "a nuptial bed;" but probably it denotes a kind of palanquin, perhaps synonymous with the Arabic farfar, a species of vehicle for women. Sol 3:7; Sa2 23:5; Rev 14:6 Song of Solomon (Canticles) 3:10”

“Another voice now describes the splendour of the bed of state which Solomon prepared in honour of Shulamith: 9 A bed of state hath King Solomon made for himself Of the wood of Lebanon. 10 Its pillars hath he made of silver, Its support of gold, its cushion of purple; Its interior is adorned from love By the daughters of Jerusalem. The sound of the word, the connection and the description, led the Greek translators (the lxx, Venet., and perhaps also others) to render אפּריון, by φορεῖον, litter palanquin (Vulg. ferculum). The appiryon here described has a silver pedestal and a purple cushion - as we read in Athenaeus v. 13 (II p. 317, ed. Schweigh.) that the philosopher and tyrant Athenion…”