a little childe] In that sleep Solomon calls himself a little childe; And a little before that David testifies the like of him, 1 Chron. XXII. 5. and chap. XXI. 1. with an eye had to his grear charge at that age; not unlike to that, Jer. I. 6. Yet then David calls him a Wise-man, 1 King. II. 9. even before that wonderful increase of wisdome added to him after Davids death; And then Solomon, being indeed about seventeen years old, had Rehoboam, his son, as appears by the age of Rehoboam at the beginning of his reigne, 1 King. XIV. 21. 2 Chron. XII. 13.