Proverbs 31:1
The words of Lemuel, the king; the vision by which his mother taught him.
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 1:8My son, hear thou the teaching of thy father, and forsake thou not the law of thy mother; (My son, listen thou to thy father’s teaching; and do not thou abandon thy mother’s principles;)
Proverbs 30:1The words of him that gathereth, of the son spewing. The prophecy which a man spake, with whom God was, and which man was comforted by God dwelling with him, and said, (The words of Agur, the son of Jakeh. The prophecy which a man spoke unto Ithiel, yea, unto Ithiel and Ucal,)
2 Timothy 3:15for thou hast known holy letters from thy youth, which may learn thee [or which may inform thee] to health, by (the) faith that is in Christ Jesus. (for thou hast known the holy Scriptures from thy youth, which can lead thee to salvation, through faith that is in the Messiah 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 →