1 Kings 4:32
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New International Version (©2011)
He spoke three thousand proverbs and his songs numbered a thousand and five.

New Living Translation (©2007)
He composed some 3,000 proverbs and wrote 1,005 songs.

English Standard Version (©2001)
He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Solomon composed 3,000 proverbs, and his songs numbered 1,005.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Solomon wrote 3,000 proverbs and 1,005 songs.

NET Bible (©2006)
He composed 3,000 proverbs and 1,005 songs.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Solomon spoke 3,000 proverbs and wrote 1,005 songs.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

American King James Version
And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

American Standard Version
And he spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Solomon also spoke three thousand parables: and his poems were a thousand and five.

Darby Bible Translation
And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.

English Revised Version
And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

World English Bible
He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.

Young's Literal Translation
And he speaketh three thousand similes, and his songs are five, and the chief one;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:29-34 Solomon's wisdom was more his glory than his wealth. He had what is here called largeness of heart, for the heart is often put for the powers of the mind. He had the gift of utterance, as well as wisdom. It is very desirable, that those who have large gifts of any kind, should have large hearts to use them for the good of others. What treasures of wisdom and knowledge are lost! But every sort of knowledge that is needful for salvation is to be found in the holy Scriptures. There came persons from all parts, who were more eager after knowledge than their neighbours, to hear the wisdom of Solomon. Solomon was herein a type of Christ, in whom are hid all treasures of wisdom and knowledge; and hid for us, for he is made of God to us, wisdom. Christ's fame shall spread through all the earth, and men of all nations shall come to him, learn of him, and take upon them his easy yoke, and find rest for their souls.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 32. - And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. [Of the former, less than one-third are preserved in the Book of Proverbs (see Proverbs 1:1; Proverbs 25:1); the rest are lost to us. The Book of Ecclesiastes, even if the composition of Solomon, can hardly be described as proverbs. Of his songs all have perished, except the Song of Solomon, and possibly Psalm 72, 127. (see the titles), and, according to some, 128.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he spake three thousand proverbs,.... Wise sayings, short and pithy sentences, instructive in morality and civil life; these were not written as the book of Proverbs, but spoken only, and were taken from his lips, and spread by those that heard them for the use of others, but in process of time were lost; whereas the above book, being written under divine inspiration, is preserved: and

his songs were a thousand and five; some things that were useful to improve the minds and morals of men he delivered in verse, to make them more pleasant and agreeable, that they might be the more easily received and retained in memory; but of all his songs, the most: excellent is the book of Canticles, called "the Song of Songs", being divine and spiritual, and dictated by the inspiration of the Spirit of God: he was both a moral philosopher and poet, as well as a botanist and naturalist, and well-skilled in medicine, as the following words suggest, 1 Kings 4:33.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

32. he spake three thousand proverbs—embodying his moral sentiments and sage observations on human life and character.

songs … a thousand and five—Psalm 72, 127, 132, and the Song of Songs are his.

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Solomon's Wisdom
…31For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about. 32And he spoke three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five. 33And he spoke of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall: he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

1 Kings 4:33 He spoke about plant life, from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop that grows out of walls. He also spoke about animals and birds, reptiles and fish.
Proverbs 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
Proverbs 10:1 The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.
Proverbs 25:1 These are more proverbs of Solomon, compiled by the men of Hezekiah king of Judah:
Ecclesiastes 12:9 Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs.
Ecclesiastes 12:12 Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.
Song of Solomon 1:1 Solomon's Song of Songs.