The Words of King Lemuel’s Mother
It is not for kings to drink wine,
Nor for princes intoxicating drink;
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Proverbs 31:2
What, my son? - The Chaldee bar is used twice in this verse, instead of the Hebrew ben , son. This verse is very elliptical; and commentators, according to their different tastes, have inserted words, indeed some of them a whole sentence, to make up the sense. Perhaps Coverdale has hit the sense as nearly as any other: "These are the wordes of Kynge Lemuel; and the lesson that his mother taughte him. My sonne, thou son of my body, O my deare beloved sonne!"
The son of my vows? - A child born after vows made for offsprings is called the child of a person' s vows.
| << Proverbs 31:1 | Proverbs 31:3 >> |
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