Song of Songs 8:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.

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Referenced Verses

  • Song 1:6 : 6 Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.
  • Acts 20:28 : 28 Give attention to yourselves, and to all the flock which the Holy Spirit has given into your care, to give food to the church of God, for which he gave his blood.
  • Rom 14:7-9 : 7 For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself. 8 As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's. 9 And for this purpose Christ went into death and came back again, that he might be the Lord of the dead and of the living.
  • 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.
  • 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.
  • 1 Thess 2:19 : 19 For what is our hope or joy or crown of glory? Are not even you, before our Lord Jesus, at his coming?
  • 1 Tim 4:15-16 : 15 Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward. 16 Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.
  • 1 Tim 5:17-18 : 17 Let rulers whose rule is good be honoured twice over, specially those whose work is preaching and teaching. 18 For the Writings say, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. And, The worker has a right to his reward.
  • Ps 72:17-19 : 17 May his name go on for ever, as long as the sun: may men be blessing themselves by him; may all nations be blessing his name. 18 Praise be to the Lord God, the God of Israel, the only doer of wonders. 19 Praise to the glory of his noble name for ever; let all the earth be full of his glory. So be it, So be it.
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Song 8:11
    88%

    11 Solomon had a vine-garden at Baal-hamon; he let out the vine-garden to keepers; every one had to give a thousand bits of silver for its fruit.

  • Song 8:13
    77%

    13 You who have your resting-place in the gardens, the friends give ear to your voice; make me give ear to it.

  • Isa 5:1-5
    5 verses
    76%

    1 Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

    2 And after working the earth of it with a spade, he took away its stones, and put in it a very special vine; and he put up a watchtower in the middle of it, hollowing out in the rock a place for the grape-crushing; and he was hoping that it would give the best grapes, but it gave common grapes.

    3 And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.

    4 Is there anything which might have been done for my vine-garden which I have not done? why then, when I was hoping for the best grapes did it give me common grapes?

    5 And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;

  • 2 Chr 2:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.

    10 And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.

  • Eccl 2:4-7
    4 verses
    72%

    4 I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.

    5 I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.

    6 I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.

    7 I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

  • Mark 12:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 And he gave them teaching in the form of stories. A man had a vine-garden planted, and put a wall about it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and put up a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.

    2 And when the time came, he sent a servant to get from the workmen some of the fruit of the garden.

  • Song 7:12
    72%

    12 Let us go out early to the vine-gardens; let us see if the vine is in bud, if it has put out its young fruit, and the pomegranate is in flower. There I will give you my love.

  • Prov 8:19
    72%

    19 My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.

  • Ps 80:15
    72%

    15 Even to the tree which was planted by your right hand, and to the branch which you made strong for yourself.

  • Judg 9:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 Then the trees said to the vine, You come and be king over us.

    13 But the vine said to them, Am I to give up my wine, which makes glad God and men, to go waving over the trees?

  • Jer 12:10
    70%

    10 The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

  • 1 Kgs 1:20
    70%

    20 And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, waiting for you to say who is to take the place of my lord the king after him.

  • 1 Sam 8:14-15
    2 verses
    69%

    14 He will take your fields and your vine-gardens and your olive-gardens, all the best of them, and give them to his servants.

    15 He will take a tenth of your seed and of the fruit of your vines and give it to his servants.

  • 2 Chr 2:15
    69%

    15 So now let my lord send to his servants the grain and the oil and the wine as my lord has said;

  • 1 Kgs 5:15
    69%

    15 Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;

  • Deut 22:9
    69%

    9 Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

  • Isa 27:2
    69%

    2 In that day it will be said, A vine-garden of delight, make a song about it.

  • Ezek 17:8
    69%

    8 He had it planted in a good field by great waters so that it might put out branches and have fruit and be a strong vine.

  • Isa 7:23
    69%

    23 And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.

  • Jer 31:5
    69%

    5 Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.

  • Song 1:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

    2 Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

  • Lev 25:3
    69%

    3 For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;

  • Song 2:16
    68%

    16 My loved one is mine, and I am his: he takes his food among the flowers.

  • Song 4:12-13
    2 verses
    68%

    12 A garden walled-in is my sister, my bride; a garden shut up, a spring of water stopped.

    13 The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,

  • 2 Chr 8:10
    68%

    10 Now these were the chief men in authority whom King Solomon had: two hundred and fifty of them, in authority over the people.

  • Song 1:14
    68%

    14 My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

  • 1 Kgs 4:26
    68%

    26 And Solomon had four thousand boxed-off spaces for horses for his carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen.

  • Deut 28:39
    68%

    39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

  • Song 7:10
    68%

    10 I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.

  • Gen 40:10
    68%

    10 And on the vine were three branches; and it seemed as if it put out buds and flowers, and from them came grapes ready for cutting.

  • Prov 8:21
    68%

    21 So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full.

  • Song 4:15
    68%

    15 You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

  • Isa 5:7
    68%

    7 For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

  • 2 Chr 1:12
    68%

    12 Wisdom and knowledge are given to you; and I will give you wealth and honour, such as no king has had before you or ever will have after you.

  • 2 Chr 9:12
    68%

    12 And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what she had taken to the king. So she went back to her country with her servants.

  • 1 Kgs 10:26
    68%

    26 And Solomon got together war-carriages and horsemen; he had one thousand, four hundred carriages and twelve thousand horsemen, whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king at Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chr 28:5
    68%

    5 And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me a great number of sons) he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.