John Trapp on Proverbs 31:1

CHAP. XXXI. Verſ. 1. The words of King Lemuel]

LEmuel's Leſſon, Bathſheba's Catechiſme. Lemuel ſhe calls him, becauſe God had owned him; (2 Sam. 7.14. I will be his Father, and he ſhall bee my Son) and was with him ſo long as he was with God, according to 2 Chron. 15.2. Indeed when he grew diſcinct and diſſolute, then Gods ſoul ſate looſe to him, and was disjoynted from him, Jer. 6.8. and the rather, becauſe he had had the benefit of better education. His father had taught him, and had taken much pains with him,Ariſtippus dictus eſt [non-Latin text not transcribed] quod cum mater Are[illegible: 1 letter]a do[illegible: 1 letter]n[illegible: 1 letter]ſſe[illegible: 1 letter]. 1 King. 11.9. Prov. 4.4. His mother alſo had counſelled and cautioned him betimes, not to give his ſtrength to Wine and Women. And yet he was moſt inordinate in his love to theſe two, Eccleſ. 2. This was almoſt as great an aggravation of his Sin, that he had been better taught and brought up, as that other, that he forſook the Lord that had appeared unto him twice. The words of King Lemuel they are called, becauſe though compoſed by his Mother, yet for his uſe in the ſame ſenſe, as Pſal. 127. is ſtiled, A ſong of degrees of Salomon, or for Solomon, though made by his Father: who tells him there, that which hee found true by experience. Loe, children are an heritage of the Lord, &c. for by all his Wives, Salomon had none but one Son, and him none of the wiſeſt neither.