Psalms 127:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 127

⁵Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Psalms 127:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 27:11
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
Job 42:12-16
So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. …
Genesis 50:23
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.
Job 5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Psalms 18:47
It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.

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. 5)

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.