Proverbs 30:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 31:1
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
2 Peter 1:19-21
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: …

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Agur Ithiel Jakeh Ucal

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

Some make Agur to be not the name of this author, but his character; he was a collector (so it signifies), a gatherer, one that did not compose things himself, but collected the wise sayings and observations of others, made abstracts of the writings of others, which some think is the reason why he says (Prov. 30:3), “ I have not learned wisdom myself, but have been a scribe, or amanuensis, to othe…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Pr 30:1-33. 1. This is the title of this chapter (see Introduction). the prophecy--literally, “the burden” (compare Is 13:1; Zec 9:1), used for any divine instruction; not necessarily a prediction, which was only a kind of prophecy (1Ch 15:27, “a song”). Prophets were inspired men, who spoke for God to man, or for man to God (Ge 20:7; Ex 7:14, 15, 16). Such, also, were the New Testament prophets.…