Df – Proverbs of Solomon Copied by Hezekiah’s Men 25:1 to 29:27

Proverbs of Solomon Copied by Hezekiah’s Men
25:1 to 29:27

Hezekiah’s men (see the commentary on Isaiah, to see link click Gq – In the Fourteenth Year of Hezekiah’s Reign), perhaps royal scribes, copied more than 100 of Solomon’s proverbs. This was about 250 years after Solomon wrote them. Hezekiah’s men grouped many of these proverbs into units of similar thoughts.⁴⁶⁹ Men of literary ability were employed by the king who was himself interested in literature. During his reign, Shebna the scribe evidently copied a prominent position (Second Kings 18:18 and 37). In Second Kings 19:3, a message from Hezekiah to the prophet Isaiah displays fine literary style, and in Isaiah 38:10-20 a poem composed by the king on his recovery from illness is preserved. The proverbs in these chapters differ somewhat from Solomon’s original proverbs in that there are more multiple-line sayings and more similes; Chapters 28 and 29 are similar to Chapters 10 through 16, but Chapters 25 through 27 differ in having few references to ADONAI.⁴⁷⁰