Most interpreters are of opinion that Lemuel is Solomon the name signifies one that is for God, or devoted to God and so it agrees well enough with that honourable name which, by divine appointment, was given to Solomon ( 2 Sam 12 25), Jedediah-beloved of the Lord. 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy. 8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more. 6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts. 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine nor for princes strong drink: 5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted. 2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows? 3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. Maternal Counsels to King Lemuel.ฤก The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. The description of a virtuous woman, especially in the relation of a wife and the mistress of a family, which Lemuel's mother drew up, not as an encomium of herself, though, no doubt, it was her own true picture, but either as an instruction to her daughters, as the foregoing verses were to her son, or as a direction to her son in the choice of a wife she must be chaste and modest, diligent and frugal, dutiful to her husband, careful of her family, discreet in her discourse, and in the education of her children, and, above all, conscientious in her duty to God: such a one as this, if he can find her, will make him happy, ver 10-31. An exhortation to Lemuel, a young prince, to take heed of the sins he would be tempted to and to do the duties of the place he was called to, ver 1-9. This chapter is added to Solomon's proverbs, some think because it is of the same author, supposing king Lemuel to be king Solomon others only because it is of the same nature, though left in writing by another author, called Lemuel however it be, it is a prophecy, and therefore given by inspiration and direction of God, which Lemuel was under in the writing of it, and putting it into this form, as his mother was in dictating to him the matter of it.
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