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Ps 127:3 King James Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Posterity is often represented as a blessing from God (Gen 30:2, Gen 30:18; Sa1 1:19-20). Children are represented as the defenders (arrows) of their parents in war, and in litigation.
 
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19 And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.
20 Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.
18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
48 He delivereth me from mine enemies: yea, thou liftest me up above those that rise up against me: thou hast delivered me from the violent man.
10 But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah.
13 And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:
3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
20 And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
13 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?