Proverbs 31:1
The words of king Lamuel. The vision wherewith his mother instructed him. Lamuel... This name signifies God with him, and is supposed to have been one of the names of Solomon.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
In Context
2What, O my beloved, what, O the beloved of my womb, what, O the beloved of my vows?
Cross References
Proverbs 1:8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 30:1The words of Gatherer the son of Vomiter. The vision which the man spoke, with whom God is, and who being strengthened by God, abiding with him, said: Gatherer, etc... Or, as it is in the Latin, Congregans the son of Vomens. The Latin interpreter has given us in this place the signification of the Hebrew names, instead of the names themselves, which are in the Hebrew, Agur the son of Jakeh. But whether this Agur be the same person as Solomon, as many think, or a different person, whose doctrine was adopted by Solomon, and inserted among his parables or proverbs, is uncertain.
2 Timothy 3:15And because from thy infancy thou hast known the holy scriptures which can instruct thee to salvation by the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 31:1
This chapter is added to Solomon's proverbs, some think because it is of the same author, supposing king Lemuel to be king Solomon; others only because it is of the same nature, though left in writing by another author, called Lemuel; however it be, it is a prophecy, and therefore given by inspiration and direction of God, which Lemuel was under in the writing of it, and putting it into this form, as his mother was in dictating to him the matter of it. Here is, I. An exhortation to Lemuel, a young prince, to take… Read the whole commentary →