1 Kings 4:32 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³² He composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³² And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³² He also originated 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.

American Standard Version (1901)

³² And he spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.

Common English Bible

³² Solomon spoke three thousand proverbs and one thousand five songs.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³² Solomon also spoke three thousand parables. And his verses were one thousand and five.

1 Kings 4:32 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:9

Besides being wise, the Teacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs.

Matthew 13:35

This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet: “I will open my mouth to speak in parables; I will proclaim what has been hidden since the foundation.”

1 Kings 4:33

He would speak of trees, from the cedar that is in the Lebanon to the hyssop that grows in the wall; he would speak of animals, and birds, and reptiles, and fish.

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.

Proverbs 25:1

These are other proverbs of Solomon that the officials of King Hezekiah of Judah copied.

Ecclesiastes 12:12

Of anything beyond these, my child, beware. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.