Song of Solomon 8:10

Our heroine can proudly assert her purity, and her beloved honours her.

11, 12. In figurative speech he expresses his contentment. King Solomon has a fertile and profitable vineyard at Baal-hamon (perhaps the town mentioned in Joshua 19:28). Any one would give for its produce a thousand shekels (about £130). Those to whom it is entrusted will not make less than two hundred shekels profit. But the happy lover is well satisfied that Solomon should have his thousand shekels and the keepers their two hundred, provided he may have his dear one. The Arab poet sings, 'Take away all roses; one little garden is enough for me.' Solomon here is the typical wealthy king, the Croesus of Hebrew fancy (1 Kings 10:21): cp. also Sir 12:5.