* he forsook.
  25:15,16  2Sa 17:14  Pr 1:25  9:9  19:20  25:12  Ec 10:2,3,16 
  Isa 30:1 
 * the young men.
   It was a custom in different countries to educate with the
   heir to the throne, young noblemen of nearly the same age.
   This, as Calmet observes, answered two great and important
   ends:  1.  It excited the prince to emulation; that he might,
   as far as possible, surpass in all manly exercises, and in all
   acts of prudence and virtue, those whom one day he was to
   surpass in the elevation and dignity of his station.  2.  That
   he might acquire a correct knowledge of the disposition and
   views of those who were likely to be, under him, the highest
   officers of the state, and consequently know the better how to
   trust and employ them.