Cross references

Song of Solomon 2:8

Listen! My beloved approaches.

Look! Here he comes,

leaping across the mountains,

bounding over the hills.

Song of Solomon 2:8 BSB

Song of Solomon 2:8 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to John 10:27 (6 votes) and Song of Solomon 2:17 (4 votes). 7 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from 2 Samuel 6 to Revelation 3.

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Which verses does Song of Solomon 2:8 point to?

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  1. John 10:276 votes

    My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.

  2. Before the day breaks and shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether.

  3. How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

  4. John 3:294 votes

    The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens for him, and is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete.

  5. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.

  6. As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

  7. I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking: “Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night.”

  8. Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.

  9. A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill made low; the uneven ground will become smooth, and the rugged land a plain.

  10. Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.

  11. You will indeed go out with joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands. Instead of the thornbush, the cypress will grow, and instead of the brier, the myrtle will spring up; this will make a name for the LORD, an everlasting sign, never to be destroyed.”

  12. Acts 3:83 votes
  13. Acts 14:103 votes
  14. Luke 6:232 votes

Which verses point to Song of Solomon 2:8?

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