Passage Overview · Free · Song of Solomon 8:11–12
Solomon’s Vineyard and My Own Vineyard
Solomon owns a vineyard at Baal-hamon, leases it to keepers, and receives a thousand pieces of silver from its fruit. The woman answers, “My vineyard, which is mine, is before me,” then assigns Solomon his thousand and the keepers their two hundred.
The contrast is striking: royal wealth and managed production stand beside personal possession—“my vineyard, which is mine.” Because vineyard language has carried bodily and relational overtones since 1:6, many readers hear a final assertion of agency and exclusivity.