The child was evidently a prince of some promise. It is probable that he was heir to the throne.

Because in him there is found some good thing. —There is something particularly moving in this declaration of early death…

And all Israel shall mourn for him, and bury him
Give him an honourable interment, and follow him to the grave with …

Whether we keep an account of God's mercies to us or not, he does; and he will set them in order before us, if we are ungrateful, to our greater co…