And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I [am but] a little child: I know not [how] to go out or come in.
Ver. 7. And I am but a little child.] So he seemed to himself; though his father counted and called him a wise man, 1Ki 2:9 even before that wonderful increase of his wisdom after David's death. See the like modesty in Agur, that great wise man. Pro 30:2-3
I know not how to go out or come in,] i.e., To sway this massy sceptre, to rule this great people. An allusion to captains or shepherds, or, as some think, to a little child who learneth of his mother to go out and come into the house. a
a Vatab. A Lapide.