Song of Solomon 7:12

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁰I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me. ¹¹Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside; let us spend the night in the villages. ¹²Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vine has budded, if the blossom has opened, if the pomegranates are in bloom-there I will give you my love.¹³The mandrakes send forth a fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, new as well as old, that I have treasured up for you, my beloved.

Bible Verse Review
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get: Proverbs 8:17, Ecclesiastes 9:10

let us see: Song of Solomon 6:11, Proverbs 24:30, Proverbs 24:31, Acts 15:36, 2 Corinthians 13:5, 1 Thessalonians 3:5, 1 Thessalonians 3:6, Hebrews 12:15

the tender: Song of Solomon 2:13, Song of Solomon 2:15, Isaiah 18:5

appear: Heb. open

there will I give thee: Song of Solomon 7:6, Song of Solomon 4:16, Exodus 25:22, Psalms 43:4, Psalms 63:3-8, Psalms 73:25, Psalms 122:5, Ezekiel 20:40, Ezekiel 20:41, Romans 5:11, 2 Corinthians 5:14, 2 Corinthians 5:15, Ephesians 6:24, Hebrews 4:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 27:27 - the smell of a field Ecclesiastes 2:4 - I planted Song of Solomon 1:2 - thy love Song of Solomon 4:13 - are Song of Solomon 8:2 - I would cause Song of Solomon 8:11 - had a Song of Solomon 8:13 - dwellest Ezekiel 15:2 - What John 15:1 - husbandman

Cross-References

Genesis 7:4
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."

Genesis 7:17
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

Exodus 24:18
Moses entered the cloud as he went up on the mountain, and he remained on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

Deuteronomy 9:9
When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

Deuteronomy 9:18
Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the LORD's sight and provoking Him to anger.

Deuteronomy 10:10
I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, like the first time, and that time the LORD again listened to me and agreed not to destroy you.

1 Kings 19:8
So he got up and ate and drank. And strengthened by that food, he walked forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.

Matthew 4:2
After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Let us get up early to the vineyards,.... After a night's lodging in the fields, or among the "Cyprus trees". By which "vineyards" may be meant particular churches, gathered according to Gospel order, and distinguished from the world, planted with fruitful vines, and fenced by almighty power: hither the church proposes to "get up early", very early in the morning; being willing to take the first and most seasonable opportunity of visiting the saints, to know their state and condition; and, that her visit might not be in vain, she is for taking Christ along with her;

let us see if the vine flourish; true believers in Christ; who, though weak and worthless in themselves, yet being ingrafted in Christ, the true vine, bring forth fruit, and become flourishing in grace and good works; of the flourishing or flowering of the vine,

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[whether] the tender grape appear; or when "the flower of the vine opens" e, and goes off, and the small grape appears: by which young converts may be meant, who are tender, and have but a small degree of faith and knowledge; and yet these are not overlooked, much less despised, by Christ and his church, but are delighted with the promising appearance they make;

[and] the pomegranates bud forth; stronger believers, taller and more fruitful than the former; see Song of Solomon 4:13; the actings and exercise of whose grace are signified by "budding forth", in an open and visible manner: the church is concerned for the good and welfare of the saints of all ranks and sizes; of vines and pomegranates, as well as tender grapes; and of the budding of the one, as well as of the opening and flowering of the other. And seeing these ends proposed by her are the same with Christ's, Song of Solomon 6:11; she might conclude they would prevail upon him to go with her, particularly what follows:

there will I give thee my loves; in the fields, villages, and vineyards, when alone, and observing the state and condition of particular churches and saints; and having communion with Christ, the church might hope and expect to have her heart enlarged, and drawn forth in love to Christ more abundantly; and that she should be able to manifest it more largely to him, and give clearer and fuller proofs of it: and this she observes in order to gain her point, and get him to go along with her; knowing that her love, in the actings and exercise of it, was very acceptable to him, Song of Solomon 4:10; I see not why the word for "loves" may not be rendered "my lovely flowers"; as a word nearly the same, in Song of Solomon 7:13, is by some rendered, "these lovely flowers give a good smell", which seems to refer to the flowers here; such as were to be met with in plenty, in fields and vineyards, among vines and pomegranates, as lilies, violets, c. and may be an allusion to lovers, who used to give to those they loved sweet smelling flowers f and here may signify the graces of the Spirit, and the actings of them, which are fragrant, and acceptable to Christ.

e פתח הסמדר "num si, vel gemmas suas aperuerit flos vitis", Michaelis; to the same sense Pagninus, Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius Tremellius. f "Naias amat Thyrsin, Glauce Almona, Nisa Theonem Nisa rosas, Glauce violas, dat lilia Nais". Cythereus Sidonius apud Auson.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 12. Let us get up early to the vineyards — When in the country, we shall have the better opportunity to contemplate the progress of the spring vegetation; and there she promises to be peculiarly affectionate to him.