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The nineteenth volume in the Believers Church Bible Commentary series is unique for its detailed uncovering of evidence for two editions of Proverbs, a first in the time of Solomon and a second in support of King Hezekiah's historic religious reforms. In this light heretofore puzzling features of the book's design, purpose and message are clarified and the book's relevance for its time and ours...

a garland to grace your head (line 1), and a chain to adorn your neck (line 2). Poems like this might be as short as a single couplet—as in the case of the 375 two-line poems in the book’s main collection (10:1–22:16)—or couplets might be combined to make longer poems like those in chapters 1–9. A mashal can be a poem on almost any topic. The opening verses of Proverbs state that its“poems” have a single theme and purpose: for attaining wisdom (1:2). Wisdom as we think of it is
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