“Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.”
Proverbs 4 is remarkable in its structure: Solomon is passing down wisdom that his own father David gave him. 'When I was a son with my father,' he writes just after, 'tender, the only one in the sight of my mother, he taught me and said to me...' This is three generations in one chapter.
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