I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.
Horses in Pharaoh's chariots - celebrated for beauty, swiftness, and ardour, at the Red sea. These qualities, which seem to belong to the ungodly, really belong to the saint (Moody Stuart). The allusion may be to the horses brought at a high price by Solomon out of Egypt (2 Chronicles 1:16-17). So the bride is redeemed out of spiritual Egypt by the true Solomon, at an infinite price (Isaiah 51:1; 1 Peter 1:18-19). But the deliverance from Pharaoh at the Red sea accords with the allusion to the tabernacle (1:5; 3:6-7): it rightly is put at the beginning of the older Church's call. The ardour and beauty of the bride are the point of comparison (Song of Solomon 1:4, "run;" Song of Solomon 1:5, "comely"). Also, like Pharaoh's horses, she forms a great company (Revelation 19:7; Revelation 19:14). As Jesus Christ is both Shepherd and Conqueror, so believers are not only His sheep, but also, as a Church militant now, His chariots and horses (Song of Solomon 6:4). So Elijah and Elisha were (2 Kings 2:12).