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Lemuel

Mentioned in 699 BC traditional (Jones)

Dedicated to God, a king whom his mother instructed (Prov. 31:1-9). Nothing is certainly known concerning him.

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).

Mother
Mother of Lemuel
Tagged in
2 verses

Computed from the data. Years are traditional (Jones).

Family

Two generations up and the children. Gold lines join partners; grey lines run from parent to child; a dotted line marks a parent named in the text but not by descent.

Family tree of Lemuel: two generations up and down, with partners and siblings.

Timeline

The strip runs from Creation to AD 100; the shaded part, 724–674 BC, is drawn below at a larger scale around these mentions, with 2 contemporaries. Years are traditional (Jones), shown as recorded, not as settled fact.

Timeline of Lemuel’s mentions beside the people of the same era.

Mentions

Begat counts Lemuel in 2 tagged verses in one book.

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  1. Proverbs2

The name in each translation

TextOccurrences of each name
BSBLemuel 2
KJVLemuel 2
ASVLemuel 2

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Every verse

All 2 tagged verses, by book, in canonical order. The Berean Standard Bible is shown; switch to the King James or American Standard Version.

Proverbs2 verses
  1. 31:1

    These are the words of King Lemuel—the burden that his mother taught him:

  2. 31:4

    It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to crave strong drink,

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

The full entry, public domain, as printed in 1897.

Dedicated to God, a king whom his mother instructed (Prov. 31:1-9). Nothing is certainly known concerning him. The rabbis identified him with Solomon.