As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
The psalm is a song of Solomon written about the time the temple was being built. It belongs to a group connected with the return from Babylonian captivity under Cyrus, attributed to the sons of Korah, Ezra, and others, reflecting the returnees' joy, sorrow, and anxiety over the building and dedication of the second temple and its triumphs. It is a Psalm of Degrees chanted on the fifteen steps leading up to the inner court of the temple.
Children born to the young are valuable and powerful, like arrows in the hand of a mighty warrior. Like arrows in a mighty warrior's hand, children must be directed and controlled by the one who handles them. Parents are responsible for training children for God, guiding them from home and school so they do not miss the kingdom. Education and effort alone cannot train the child; unless the Lord builds into the training, the labor is in vain. Children are a blessing, and a large family is a beautiful sight.
Children of youth are true riches, greater than money, land, houses, and magnificent living; a poor man blessed with little children and babies is rich, while a man as rich as a king without children to secure his heart and bid him good-night is poverty-poor and to be pitied rather than envied. God puts great honor upon Britain by making her His quiver for His arrows, which are the evangelists at home and abroad and the Bible, missionary, and tract societies in their work of faith and labor of love spreading the knowledge of Christ among heathen and other unenlightened nations, thereby gathering out of the world lying in wickedness a seed to serve Him from every kindred and nation and people and tongue.
The psalm is a song of Solomon written about the time the temple was being built. It belongs to a group connected with the return from Babylonian captivity under Cyrus, attributed to the sons of Korah, Ezra, and others, reflecting the returnees' joy, sorrow, and anxiety over the building and dedication of the second temple and its triumphs. It is a Psalm of Degrees chanted on the fifteen steps leading up to the inner court of the temple.
Children born to the young are valuable and powerful, like arrows in the hand of a mighty warrior. Like arrows in a mighty warrior's hand, children must be directed and controlled by the one who handles them. Parents are responsible for training children for God, guiding them from home and school so they do not miss the kingdom. Education and effort alone cannot train the child; unless the Lord builds into the training, the labor is in vain. Children are a blessing, and a large family is a beautiful sight.
Children of youth are true riches, greater than money, land, houses, and magnificent living; a poor man blessed with little children and babies is rich, while a man as rich as a king without children to secure his heart and bid him good-night is poverty-poor and to be pitied rather than envied. God puts great honor upon Britain by making her His quiver for His arrows, which are the evangelists at home and abroad and the Bible, missionary, and tract societies in their work of faith and labor of love spreading the knowledge of Christ among heathen and other unenlightened nations, thereby gathering out of the world lying in wickedness a seed to serve Him from every kindred and nation and people and tongue.