This list is almost identical to the list of curses that would come upon Israel because of their violation of the covenant (Deuteronomy 28:20-22, 48). “And I will heap evils upon them I will spend my arrows upon them they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and poisonous pestilence and I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with venom of crawling things of the dust” (Deuteronomy 32:23-24).Īccording to this text, Yahweh’s arrows will include hunger, drought, pestilence, and plague. Yahweh will come upon Israel with the arrows of chastisement: Yahweh’s anger against Israel will be relentless. In the Song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32:1-44), Israel is reminded of its obligation to remain faithful to the demands of the covenant and warned of the consequences of rebellion and disobedience.ĭeuteronomy 32:19-25 includes a list of judgments that will come upon the nation as a result of their sins. The arrows of God’s chastisement come when Israel defects from its commitment to the covenant established between the people and Yahweh at Sinai. In this text, God is compared to a skilled warrior who takes an arrow from his quiver and takes aim at his rebellious people. This expression, “sons of the quiver,” is a reference to Yahweh’s “arrows of chastisement” (BDB). The word “arrows” appears in Lamentations 3:13 as “sons of his quiver”: “He drove into my heart the sons of his quiver.
OLD ARROWS IN A QUIVER FULL
A blessed household is as full of sons as a quiver is full of arrows. The word “quiver” in Psalm 127:3 is a reference to a man’s house. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.”Ī large family with many sons was like a quiver full of arrows. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the sons of one’s youth. “Lo, sons are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. In my study of Psalm 127:3, I mentioned that the psalmist declared that sons are a blessing from God.
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