Proverbs 4:3

For I was my father's son,.... Or, "a son to my father" (p); so Solomon was to God, his heavenly Father, Sa2 7:14; which Jarchi observes, and gives as the sense of this place: but his father David is…

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…

Here we have,

I. The invitation which Solomon gives to his children to come and receive instruction from him (Pro 4:1, Pro 4:2): Hear, you children, the instruction of a father. That is, 1. "Let my…

my father's son The order of the words in the original: a son was I to my father, suggests the meaning, I was a trueson, a son not only by birth, but by filial reverence and obedience, "filius, i.e.…