Psalms 147:13 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 147:13

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.

KJV

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ASV

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; He hath blessed thy children within thee.

WEB

For He strengthens the bars of your gates and blesses the children within you.

YLT

For He did strengthen the bars of thy gates, He hath blessed thy sons in thy midst.

DBT

For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee;

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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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Psalms 128:3–6
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Psalms 115:14–15
The Lord shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
Isaiah 44:3–5
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
Jeremiah 30:19–20
And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.
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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) may well enough be applied to the first building and fortifying of Jerusalem in his time, and the gathering in of those that had been out-casts in Saul's time. The Septuagint divides it into two; and we may divide it into the first and second part, but both of the same import. We are called upon to praise God,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

If there be trouble any where, it is in the borders, the marches of a country; the frontier-towns lie most exposed, so that, if there be peace in the borders, there is a universal peace, a mercy we can never be sufficiently thankful for.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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