2For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. …
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)We are here taught to live a life of communion with God; and without controversy great is this mystery of godliness, and of great consequence to us, and, as is here shown, will be of unspeakable advantage. I. We must have a continual regard to God’s precepts, Prov. 3:1 , 2 . 1. We must, (1.) Fix God’s law, and his commandments, as our rule, by which we will in every thing be ruled and to which we…
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