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6Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children, and peace upon Israel.
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After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
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.
For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)It is here shown that godliness has the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come. I. It is here again and again laid down as an undoubted truth that those who are truly holy are truly happy . Those whose blessed state we are here assured of are such as fear the Lord and walk in his ways , such as have a deep reverence of God upon their spirits and evidence it by a regular and c…
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