Ecclesiastes 12:9
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Epilogue
9 Besides being wise, the Teacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs.(A)
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1 Kings 4:32
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32 He composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.(A)
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Proverbs 1:1
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1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:(A)
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Proverbs 25:1
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Further Wise Sayings of Solomon
25 These are other proverbs of Solomon that the officials of King Hezekiah of Judah copied.(A)
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Proverbs 10:1
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Wise Sayings of Solomon
10 The proverbs of Solomon.
A wise child makes a glad father,
but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.(A)
1 Kings 10:8
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8 Happy are your wives![a] Happy are these your servants who continually attend you and hear your wisdom!
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- 10.8 Gk Syr: Heb men
1 Kings 8:12-21
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12 Then Solomon said,
“The Lord has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.(A)
13 I have built you an exalted house,
a place for you to dwell forever.”(B)
Solomon’s Speech
14 Then the king turned around and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel stood.(C) 15 He said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who with his hand has fulfilled what he promised with his mouth to my father David, saying,(D) 16 ‘Since the day that I brought my people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any of the tribes of Israel in which to build a house, that my name might be there, nor did I choose anyone to be a ruler over my people Israel. But I have chosen Jerusalem in order that my name may be there,[a] and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’(E) 17 My father David had it in mind to build a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.(F) 18 But the Lord said to my father David, ‘You did well to consider building a house for my name; 19 nevertheless, you shall not build the house, but your son who shall be born to you shall build the house for my name.’(G) 20 Now the Lord has fulfilled the promise that he made, for I have risen in the place of my father David; I sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built the house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.(H) 21 There I have provided a place for the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”(I)
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- 8.16 Cn Compare Q ms and 2 Chr 6.5–6: MT lacks nor did . . . be there
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