Psalms 127:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 127

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⁴As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

Psalms 127:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 17:6
Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Proverbs 31:28
Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Jeremiah 50:9
For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.
Psalms 120:4
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Babes Birth Blessing Children Commandments Duty

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

3-5. Posterity is often represented as a blessing from God (Ge 30:2, 18; 1Sa 1:19, 20). Children are represented as the defenders (arrows) of their parents in war, and in litigation.