But Solomon’s armor had one fatal crack: he loved many strange and foreign women and ended up with a thousand women in his harem. The Song of Solomon is concerned with the one woman he could not have. She turned him down cold! This song involves three main characters: Solomon; the Shulamite, a lovely country girl who had caught the king’s roving and appreciative eye; and the shepherd, the Shulamite’s true beloved. As the story opens, she has already given her heart to him, and she remains true to