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They shall not be ashamed - They shall not turn back discomfited, hanging their heads with shame and confusion. This is in accordance with the idea often presented in the Bible, and the promise often made there of a numerous posterity as a proof of the divine favor.

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That hath his quiver full of them - The quiver is a case in which arrows are carried and as a man - a hunter or warrior - feels secure when he has his quiver full of arrows, so a man is blessed in proportion to the number of his sons. This view certainly receives support from Job 5:4, where we have the very opposite picture of a tyrant’s sons, not only unable to support their father, but themselves “crushed in the gate ” and the phrase “speak with their enemies” in this same verse may be illustrated from Joshua 20:4 Jeremiah 12:1.īarnes' Notes on the BibleHappy is the man - Hebrew, The happiness of the man. On the other hand, it is the habit of Hebrew poetry to accumulate metaphors, and the gate is so commonly spoken of as the place of public resort, where legal cases were decided ( Isaiah 29:21 Amos 5:12, &c), that it is quite as likely that the allusion here is to the support which a man’s just cause would receive when evidently backed up by a long retinue of stalwart sons. With harm, and honour whom their father loves Obedient offspring, to requite their foes “Therefore men pray to have around their hearth, They shall not be discomfited, but they shall challenge their enemies in the gates. From the figure of the warrior and the arrows we should expect here, too, a martial image. (See especially Psalm 107:43.) Parents who have large families of sons are evidently intended. There is here one of the sudden changes of number in which Hebrew poetry abounds.

Or, as some understand the words, the children shall not be ashamed to plead for their parents in the gates, but will be ready at all times to appear for them, to answer any charge that may be brought against them and to vindicate them in their persons, their good name, or their property.Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) They.-Not the sons. Shall courageously plead their cause in courts of judicature, which were held at the gates of cities, not fearing to be crushed by the might of their adversaries, as weak and helpless persons frequently are. They - These parents, who have such a numerous issue shall not be ashamed, &c. Such children, when well educated, pious, and obedient, are like so many arrows in the hand of a mighty man, “ready winged with duty and love to fly to the mark polished and keen to grace and maintain the cause of their parents, to defend them from hostile invasions, and instantly to repel every assailant.” Happy is he who hath his quiver full of them - Whose house is as full of children as the quiver of a mighty man is of arrows.

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As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man - That knows how to use them for his own safety and advantage so are children of the youth - Children born to their parents when they are young, who are generally the strongest and most healthful children, grow up, and become qualified to serve their parents by the time they need their service, and who live longest with them whereas those who are born in old age seldom arrive at mature age before their parents die.

Arrows in our quiver meaning