OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 25:1

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These also are proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.

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Verse 1. These. Solomon wrote 3,000, and we have only 915 verses extant. Calmet.—The rest perhaps shewed his genius, but were less useful. Tostat. in 3 Kennicott. iv. 9.—Men. Isaias, Sobna, and so forth Calmet.—Out of other records, ( Menochius.) or “translated” into a language better understood. Carthus. Bayn.

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