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Proverbs 31:2

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What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
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  1. Isaiah 49:15Rank 1 from verse 2
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    15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.

  2. 1 Samuel 1:11Rank 2 from verse 2
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    11And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and there shall no rasor come upon his head.

  3. 1 Samuel 1:28Rank 3 from verse 2
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    28Therefore also I have lent him to the Lord; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord. And he worshipped the Lord there.

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Proverbs 31:2

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son

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1. A male child or descendant. 2. One belonging to, related to, or characterized by the person, people, place, condition, or quality named.

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womb

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Sense 1: The bodily place in a female where a child is conceived and carried before birth. Sense 2: A source pictured as such a place.

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31:1THE words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.

31:2What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?

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31:3Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

31:4It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:

31:5Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

31:6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.

31:7Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

31:8Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

31:9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

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