Proverbs 5:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.

Cross References

Genesis 24:60

And they gave Rebekah their blessing, saying, O sister, may you be the mother of thousands and ten thousands; and may your seed overcome all those who make war against them.

Psalm 127:3

See, sons are a heritage from the Lord; the fruit of the body is his reward.

Psalm 128:3

Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

Psalm 68:26

Give praise to God in the great meeting; even the Lord, you who come from the fountain of Israel.

Proverbs 5:15

Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.

Proverbs 5:17

Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.

Proverbs 5:18

Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

Proverbs 9:17

Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.

Song of Solomon 4:12

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

Song of Solomon 4:15

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

Isaiah 48:21

They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

Deuteronomy 33:28

And Israel is living in peace, the fountain of Jacob by himself, in a land of grain and wine, with dew dropping from the heavens.

Judges 12:9

He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters whom he sent to other places, and he got thirty wives from other places for his sons. And he was judge of Israel for seven years.