Proverbs 4:3

For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. FOR I WAS MY FATHER'S SON, TENDER AND ONLY (BELOVED) IN THE SIGHT OF MY MOTHER. My father taught me as his true son, even as I teach you. I obeyed him, and it has been well with me; do you the same (Mercer). "Tender and only beloved" exactly answers to David's words concerning him (1 Chronicles 29:1, "Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender"). In proportion as I was pre-eminently dear to my parents, my father, from my tender years, "taught me" (Proverbs 4:4). It is the truest mark of love on the part of the parent to teach the child in the ways of heavenly wisdom; and to leave a child untaught is virtually to act as if you hated him. "Only bel...

1-13 We must look upon our teachers as our fathers: though instruction carry in it reproof and correction, bid it welcome. Solomon's parents loved him, therefore taught him. Wise and godly men, in every age of the world, and rank in society, agree that true wisdom consists in obedience, and is united to happiness. Get wisdom, take pains for it. Get the rule over thy corruptions; take more pains to get this than the wealth of this world. An interest in Christ's salvation is necessary. This wisdom is the one thing needful. A soul without true wisdom and grace is a dead soul. How poor, contemptible, and wretched are those, who, with all their wealth and power, die without getting understanding, without Christ, without hope, and without God! Let us give heed to the sayings of Him who has the words of eternal life. Thus our path will be plain before us: by taking, and keeping fast hold of ins...

Probably the words of Solomon himself, who looks back from his glorious throne and his matured wisdom to the training which was the starting point. The part taken by Bathsheba in 1 Kings 1, no less than the friendship between her and Nathan, indicates that a mother’s training might well have laid the foundation of the king’s future wisdom. Among the Israelites and Egyptians alone, of the nations of the old world, was the son’s reverence for the mother placed side by side with that which he owed to his father. ONLY BELOVED, - literally “only,” but the word is used apparently (as in Genesis 22:2, Genesis 22:12) in its derived sense, “beloved like an only son.” The Vulga

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 4:1 7. _Seventh admonitory discourse. _We here enter upon the second group of admonitory discourses, as is indicated by the opening address, "my children," and which occurs again in Proverbs 5:7 and Proverbs 7:24. This group extends to the end of Proverbs 7:1. Its prevailing tone is that of warning rather than of positive exhortations, which have been the rule hitherto. The general aim of the discourse before us, as of those preceding, is to exalt Wisdom, to exhibit her as a subject worthy of all earnest endeavour and sacrifice, but it is noticeable that the teacher introd

FOR I WAS MY FATHER'S SON,.... Or, "a son to my father" p; so Solomon was to God, his heavenly Father, 2 Samuel 7:14; which Jarchi observes, and gives as the sense of this place: but his father David is meant, whose son he was; though he was not his only one, he had others besides him. But the sense is, that he was his darling, his beloved son, whom he loved above the rest; as he was beloved of the Lord, and therefore his name was called Jedidiah, so he was beloved of his father; and, because he had a peculiar love for him, he took a particular care of his education; TENDER AND ONLY [BELOVED] IN THE SIGHT OF MY MOTHER; his mother Bathsheba, who had a most affectionate regard to him; and therefore in his tender age, as soon as he was susceptible of instructions, gave them to him, which being received, made deep and lasting impressions on him; see...

CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Solomon's training (Proverbs 4:1)_ 2. Hear, O my son: Receive my sayings (Proverbs 4:10) 3. My son, attend to my words. (Proverbs 4:20) Proverbs 4:1. This passage shows the early training which Solomon received and he passeth on the instructions. It is said that these verses formed a model for many Puritan homes in England and the Scotland of the covenant. He was the beloved one, his father's true son. Note the different exhortation, about wisdom: Forget it not; forsake her not; love her; exalt her. Then the promises: She shall preserve thee; she shall keep thee; she shall promote thee

SON. The Hebrew accent (_Dechi_) emphasizes this word to show (1) his own early training (Proverbs 4:3); (2) those whom he would instruct (verses: Proverbs 4:1; Proverbs 4:2); (3) his instruction (verses: Proverbs 4:5.) ONLY BELOVED. unique. IN THE SIGHT OF MY MOTHER.. special various reading, called _Sevir_ (App-34), reads "of my mother's sons". So in some codices, with several early printed editions....

Seventh Address. Chap. Proverbs 4:1-9 Resuming, after the parenthesis (Proverbs 3:27-35) the style and tone of fatherly address of the preceding sections, the Teacher commends Wisdom to his scholars as his children, by the example of his own early education. Mr Horton happily remarks, "This chapter begins with a charming little piece of autobiography," and quotes Wordsworth's words, "Wisdom doth live with children round her knees....

FOR I WAS MY FATHER'S SON, &C.— Literally, _I was a tender and delicate child, and the only son of my mother._ The word, _only son,_ in this place may be taken in the sense in which the LXX have translated it, and which we have followed. Greek and Latin authors often express by this epithet an only son or a first-born. Houbigant renders the verse, _For I was the principal son of my father, the only-beloved of my mother._...

CHAPTER 4 TEXT Proverbs 4:1-9 1. Hear my sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding: 2. For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law. 3. For I was a son unto my father, Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 4. And he taught me, and said unto me: Let thy heart retain my words; Keep my commandments, and live; 5. Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth; 6. Forsake her not, and she will preserve thee; Love her, and she will keep thee. 7. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; Yea, with all thy getting get understanding. 8. Exalt her, and she will promote thee; She will bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her. 9. She will