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Proverbs 4:3
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When I was a son with my father,tender and precious to my mother,
For I was a son to my father, Tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
When I was a young boy in my father's house and like an only child to my mother,
When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,
When I was a son with my father (David), Tender and the only son in the sight of my mother (Bathsheba),
When I was a son to my father, Tender and the only son in the sight of my mother,
For I was a son to my father, Tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,
When I was a son to my father,Tender and the only son before my mother,
When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,
When I was still very young and my mother's favorite child, my father
For I too was once a child to my father; and my mother, too, thought of me as her special darling.
For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.
When I was my father's little boy and my mother's dear son,
For I was also a son to my father, tender and the only begotten in the sight of my mother.
When I was only a little boy, my parents' only son,
When I was a son to my father, tender and alone before my mother,
For I was my father's son, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.
For when I myself was my fathers deare sonne, and tenderly beloued of my mother,
For I was a son unto my father, Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.
For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.
For I was my fathers sonne, tender and onely beloued in the sight of my mother.
For I also was a son obedient to my father, and loved in the sight of my mother:
For I was a son unto my father, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
For whi and Y was the sone of my fadir, a tendir sone, and oon `gendride bifore my modir.
For I was a son to my father, 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.
When I was my father's son, Tender and the only one in the sight of my mother,
For I, too, was once my father's son, tenderly loved as my mother's only child.
When I was a much loved and only son of my mother and father,
When I was a son with my father, tender, and my mother's favorite,
For, a son, became I to my father, tender and most precious in the sight of my mother.
For I also was my father’s son, tender, and as an only son in the sight of my mother:
When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother.
When I was a boy at my father's knee, the pride and joy of my mother, He would sit me down and drill me: "Take this to heart. Do what I tell you—live! Sell everything and buy Wisdom! Forage for Understanding! Don't forget one word! Don't deviate an inch! Never walk away from Wisdom—she guards your life; love her—she keeps her eye on you. Above all and before all, do this: Get Wisdom! Write this at the top of your list: Get Understanding! Throw your arms around her—believe me, you won't regret it; never let her go—she'll make your life glorious. She'll garland your life with grace, she'll festoon your days with beauty."
When I was a son to my father, Tender and the only son in the sight of my mother,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
2 Samuel 12:24, 2 Samuel 12:25, 1 Kings 1:13-17, 1 Chronicles 3:5, 1 Chronicles 22:5, 1 Chronicles 29:1, Jeremiah 10:23, Romans 12:16
Reciprocal: Proverbs 6:35 - regard
Cross-References
And Adam knewe Heua his wyfe, who conceauing bare Cain, saying: I haue gotten a man of the Lorde.
And nowe art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receaue thy brothers blood from thy hande.
Al the fat of the oyle, & al the fat of the wine, & of the wheate, which they shall offer vnto the Lorde for first fruites, the same haue I geuen vnto thee.
And it chaunced after a while that the brooke dryed vp, because there fell no rayne vpon the earth.
But in all this time was not I at Hierusalem: for in the two and thirtie yere of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, came I vnto the king, & after certayne dayes obtayned I licence of the king to come to Hierusalem.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 Proverbs 31:1. The marginal reading is, "to the sons of my mother"; for Bathsheba had more sons, 1 Chronicles 3:5; both readings may be retained, "beloved in the sight of my mother's sons". Gersom interprets this of the people of Israel, who were sons to God their Father; and were the only nation that received the law, and which they received at the time of their coming out of Egypt, in the days of their youth.
p בן הייתי לאבי "filius fui patri meo", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis; so Cocceius, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 1:0, 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 Vulgate gives “unigenitus.” Compare the words applied to our Lord, as the “only begotten” John 1:14, the “beloved” Ephesians 1:6.
