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3Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. …
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
For this child I prayed; and the LORD hath given me my petition which I asked of him:
And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We are here taught to have a continual regard to the divine Providence in all the concerns of this life. Solomon was cried up for a wise man, and would be apt to lean to his own understanding and forecast, and therefore his father teaches him to look higher, and to take God along with him in his undertakings. He was to be a man of business, and therefore David instructed him how to manage his busi…
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