He taught me also, and said unto me,.... The Targum is,"they taught me,''his father and his mother; and so the Septuagint version,"who said and taught me;''and the Arabic version,"they both taught me, and said unto me;''but in the Hebrew it is singular, and is restrained to the father.
He taught him when he was very young, and also gave him instructions when he was older, and a little before his own death; see 1Ch 28:8; he taught him by the several psalms he wrote; some of which are called "maschil", instructive or causing to understand; two of them particularly were written for him, the seventy-second and the hundred twenty-seventh psalms; he taught him in the following words.