Matthew Poole and continuators on Song of Solomon 4:8

8 Come with me from Lebanon , my Spouse , with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana , from the top of Shenir and Hermon , from the lions dens, from the mountains of the leopards .

Unto the Mountains of Myrrhe, &c. mentioned v. 6.

A known Mountain in the North of Canaan, which is somtimes mentioned as a pleasant and glorious place, as Cant. 5. 15. Isa. 35. 2. Hos. 14. 6, &c. in regard of its goodly Cedars; and somtimes as a barren Wilderness, as Isa. 29. 17. and seat of Wild-Beasts, as 2 Ki[illegible: 1+ letters]. 14. 9. Which latter sense seems more agreeable, both to the opposition which is here tacitly made between this Mountain and the mountain of myrrhe, and to the quality of the other mountains here joined with Lebanon, and to the last clause of the verse.

This is the first time that Christ gives her this name, which he now doth both to encourage and oblige her to go with him.

To the place to which I invite thee to go, which from those high Mountains thou maist easily behold, the sight of which will certainly enflame thee with desire to go thither. He alludes to Moses his beholding the promised Land from mount Pisgah.

Not that Amana which divided Syria from Cilicia, which was too remote from these parts, but another of that name not far from Lebanon.

Which may be the names of two tops of the same Mountain, as Horeb & Sinai seem to have been. Or, Shenir, or (the copulative, and, being put disjunctively for or, as it is in many places, which have been observed before) Hermon, for this Mountain is called both Shenir and Hermon, Deut. 3. 9. and the latter name, Hermon, may be added to the former, as being better known to the Israelites.

From these or other such like Mountains, which are inhabited by Lions and Leopards. Which seems to be added as an Argument to move the Spouse to go with him, because the places where now she was, were not only barren, but also dangerous, as being the Habitations of Tyrants and Persecutors, and wild or salvage People, who are oft described by the names of wild Beasts, whose natures they have, and whose practices they imitate.

Marginal references: Deut. 3. 9.