Psalms 127:4 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 127:4

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

KJV

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ASV

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of youth.

WEB

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth.

YLT

As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So are the sons of the young men.

DBT

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

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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7 verses on the floor

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.
Psalms 144:12
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:

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Solomon was called Jedidiah--Beloved of the Lord ( 2 Sam. xii. 25 ); to him the kingdom was promised, and then it was in vain for Absalom to rise up early, to wheedle the people, and for Adonijah to make such a stir, and to say, I will be king. Solomon sits still, and, being beloved of the Lord, to him he gives sleep and the kingdom too.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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