Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
PSALM 127 This Psalm shows that the order of society, both political and domestic, is maintained solely by the blessing of God, and not by the policy, diligence, or wisdom of men; and that the procreating of children is his peculiar gift. A Song of Degrees of Solomon. Psalm 127:1-2 1.
Commenting on Psalm 127:1-5
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them. Those who have no children bewail the fact; those who have few children see them soon gone, and the house is silent, and their life has lost a charm; those who have many gracious children are upon the whole the happiest.
We are here taught to have a continual regard to the divine Providence in all the concerns of this life. Solomon was cried up for a wise man, and would be apt to lean to his own understanding and forecast, and therefore his father teaches him to look higher, and to take God along with him in his undertakings.
Commenting on Psalm 127:1-5