1 Koningen 4:32

32 En hij sprak drie duizend spreuken; daartoe waren zijn liederen duizend en vijf.

1 Koningen 4:32 Meaning and Commentary

1 Kings 4:32

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 ) .

1 Koningen 4:32 In-Context

30 En de wijsheid van Salomo was groter dan de wijsheid van al die van het oosten, en dan alle wijsheid der Egyptenaren;

31 Ja, hij was wijzer dan alle mensen; dan Ethan, de Ezrahiet, en Heman, en Chalcol, en Darda, de zonen van Mahol; en zijn naam was onder alle heidenen rondom.

32 En hij sprak drie duizend spreuken; daartoe waren zijn liederen duizend en vijf.

33 Hij sprak ook van de bomen, van den cederboom af, die op den Libanon is, tot op den hysop, die aan den wand uitwast; hij sprak ook van het vee, en van het gevogelte, en van de kruipende dieren, en van de vissen.

34 En van alle volken kwamen er, om de wijsheid van Salomo te horen, van alle koningen der aarde, die van zijn wijsheid gehoord hadden.