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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Lemuel (King living at the time of United Monarchy)
Proverbs 31 opens with what his mother taught him, to stay off wine and stand up for the poor and needy. Which kingdom he ruled nobody knows. Later Jewish tradition sometimes made him Solomon under another name, but that cannot be confirmed.
Proverbs 31 opens with what his mother taught him, to stay off wine and stand up for the poor and needy. Which kingdom he ruled nobody knows. Later Jewish tradition sometimes made him Solomon under another name, but that cannot be confirmed.
Lemuel was a king whose mother's wise instruction is recorded in Proverbs 31:1-9, advice about avoiding wine and defending the poor and needy. Nothing certain is known about which kingdom he ruled, and later Jewish tradition sometimes identified him with Solomon under a symbolic name, though this cannot be confirmed.
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- Proverbs 31:1
- Proverbs 31:4
