Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Arrows

So are children

General references

Bible References

Arrows

Jeremiah 50:9
"For lo, I will make up a host of people from the northern land, and bring them upon Babylon: these shall lay siege to it, and win it. Their arrows shall not miss, like as a cunning archer shooteth not wrong.

So are children

Proverbs 17:6
Children's children are a crown of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.
Proverbs 31:28
Her children arise, and call her blessed: and her husband maketh much of her.

General references

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, "Grow and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, and over all the beasts that move on the earth.
Job 21:11
They send forth their children by flocks, and their sons lead the dance.