For I was my fathers son] My father taught me, and I hearkened to him: so I teach you, and expect that you should hearken unto me. tender and onely beloved in the sight of my mother] 1 Chronicles 29:1. onely beloved in the sight of my mother] Beloved, is well added, to shew her singular affection to Solomon, as if she had had no more children; yet had she three more, 1 Chronicles 3:5. Genesis 22:2.