Song of Solomon 3:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

The watchmen that go about the city. — “Henceforward until morning the streets are deserted and silent, with only here and there a company returning from a visit, with a servant bearing a lantern before them. The city-guard creeps softly about in utter darkness, and apprehends all found walking in the streets without a light” (Thomson, Land and Book, p. 32 — in description of Beirût).

Song of Solomon 3:3

3 The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?