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4 articles found for “Lemuel's mother”

• Proverbs 31

  Proverbs 31 is the final chapter of the Book of Proverbs. It contains the instruction King Lemuel's mother gave her son and a poem in praise of the "virtuous woman."

• Lemuel

  Lemuel is a king named in Proverbs 31 who passed on the instruction he received from his mother. He appears nowhere else in the Bible, and neither the nation he ruled nor the period in which he lived is known.

• Proverbs 30

  Proverbs 30 contains the words of Agur the son of Jakeh. It consists of questions about the Creator, a declaration of the purity of God's word, a prayer asking for neither poverty nor riches, and observational sayings grouped in the pattern of "three things, yea, four."

• Proverbs 31:30

  A verse declaring that charm and beauty are vain but that a woman who fears the LORD shall be praised; it forms the conclusion of the poem of the "virtuous woman" at the end of Proverbs. It is frequently cited as a model of the woman of faith, and interpreters differ on how that portrait should be understood.