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1 Reyes 4:32
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Kings 4:32"> 32 Y propuso tres mil parábolas; y sus versos fueron mil y cinco.
Y compuso tres mil proverbios; y sus cantos fueron mil cinco.
Y propuso tres mil parábolas; y sus versos fueron cinco mil.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he spake: Proverbs 1:1 - Proverbs 31:30, Ecclesiastes 12:9, Matthew 13:35
songs: Song of Solomon 1:1-17
Reciprocal: Proverbs 10:1 - proverbs Proverbs 25:1 - proverbs
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And he spake three thousand proverbs,.... Wise sayings, short and pithy sentences, instructive in morality and civil life; these were not written as the book of Proverbs, but spoken only, and were taken from his lips, and spread by those that heard them for the use of others, but in process of time were lost; whereas the above book, being written under divine inspiration, is preserved: and
his songs were a thousand and five; some things that were useful to improve the minds and morals of men he delivered in verse, to make them more pleasant and agreeable, that they might be the more easily received and retained in memory; but of all his songs, the most: excellent is the book of Canticles, called "the Song of Songs", being divine and spiritual, and dictated by the inspiration of the Spirit of God: he was both a moral philosopher and poet, as well as a botanist and naturalist, and well-skilled in medicine, as the following words suggest, 1 Kings 4:33.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Proverbs - In the collection which forms the “Book of Proverbs,” only a small portion has been preserved, less certainly than one thousand out of the three. Ecclesiastes, if it is Solomon’s, would add between one hundred and two hundred more proverbs. But the great bulk of Solomon’s proverbs has perished.
Songs - Of these, Canticles is probably one (marginal reference): Psalms 72:0; Psalms 127:1-5 may also be of the number. Probably the bulk of Solomon’s songs were of a secular character, and consequently were not introduced into the canon of Scripture.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Kings 4:32. He spake three thousand proverbs — The book of Proverbs, attributed to Solomon, contain only about nine hundred or nine hundred and twenty-three distinct proverbs; and if we grant with some that the first nine chapters are not the work of Solomon, then all that can be attributed to him is only about six hundred and fifty.
Of all his one thousand and five songs or poems we have only one, the book of Canticles, remaining, unless we include Psalms 127:1-5, Except the Lord build the house, &c., which in the title is said to be by or for him, though it appears more properly to be a psalm of direction, left him by his father David, relative to the building of the temple.
