Mazmur 78:52

78:52 Yet he brought out his people like sheep;

he led them through the wilderness like a flock.

Mazmur 128:6

128:6 and that you might see ¹  your grandchildren. ² 

May Israel experience peace! ³ 

Kejadian 23:5-7

23:5 The sons of Heth answered Abraham, ⁴  23:6 “Listen, sir, ⁵  you are a mighty prince ⁶  among us! You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb to prevent you ⁷  from burying your dead.”

23:7 Abraham got up and bowed down to the local people, ⁸  the sons of Heth.

Kejadian 48:11

48:11 Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected ⁹  to see you ¹⁰  again, but now God has allowed me to see your children ¹¹  too.”

Kejadian 48:1

Manasseh and Ephraim

48:1 After these things Joseph was told, ¹²  “Your father is weakening.” So he took his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim with him.

1 Samuel 2:21

2:21 So the Lord graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the Lord’s sanctuary. ¹³ 

Ayub 21:11

21:11 They allow their children to run ¹⁴  like a flock;

their little ones dance about.

Ayub 42:16

42:16 After this Job lived 140 years; he saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Amsal 17:6

17:6 Grandchildren ¹⁵  are like ¹⁶  a crown ¹⁷  to the elderly,

and the glory ¹⁸  of children is their parents. ¹⁹ 

Yesaya 49:20-22

49:20 Yet the children born during your time of bereavement

will say within your hearing,

‘This place is too cramped for us, ²⁰ 

make room for us so we can live here.’ ²¹ 

49:21 Then you will think to yourself, ²² 

‘Who bore these children for me?

I was bereaved and barren,

dismissed and divorced. ²³ 

Who raised these children?

Look, I was left all alone;

where did these children come from?’”

49:22 This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“Look I will raise my hand to the nations;

I will raise my signal flag to the peoples.

They will bring your sons in their arms

and carry your daughters on their shoulders.

[128:6]  ¹ tn The imperative with prefixed vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose/result after the jussive in v. 5a.

[128:6]  ² tn Heb “sons to your sons.”

[128:6]  ³ tn Heb “peace [be] upon Israel.” The statement is understood as a prayer (see Ps 125:5).

[23:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “answered Abraham saying to him.”

[23:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “Hear us, my lord.”

[23:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “prince of God.” The divine name may be used here as a means of expressing the superlative, “mighty prince.” The word for “prince” probably means “tribal chief” here. See M. H. Gottstein, “Nasi’ ‘elohim (Gen 23:6),” VT 3 (1953) 298-99; and D. W. Thomas, “Consideration of Some Unusual Ways of Expressing the Superlative in Hebrew,” VT 3 (1953) 215-16.

[23:6]  ⁷ tn The phrase “to prevent you” has been added in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[23:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “to the people of the land” (also in v. 12).

[48:11]  ⁹ tn On the meaning of the Hebrew verb פָּלַל (palal) here, see E. A. Speiser, “The Stem pll in Hebrew,” JBL 82 (1963): 301-6. Speiser argues that this verb means “to estimate” as in Exod 21:22.

[48:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “your face.”

[48:11]  ¹¹ tn Heb “offspring.”

[48:1]  ¹² tn Heb “and one said.” With no expressed subject in the Hebrew text, the verb can be translated with the passive voice.

[2:21]  ¹³ tn Heb “with the Lord.” Cf. NAB, TEV “in the service of the Lord”; NIV, NRSV, NLT “in the presence of the Lord”; CEV “at the Lord’s house in Shiloh.”

[21:11]  ¹⁴ tn The verb שָׁלַח (shalakh) means “to send forth,” but in the Piel “to release; to allow to run free.” The picture of children frolicking in the fields and singing and dancing is symbolic of peaceful, prosperous times.

[17:6]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “children of children [sons of sons].”

[17:6]  ¹⁶ tn The comparative “like” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but is implied by the metaphor; it is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.

[17:6]  ¹⁷ sn The metaphor signifies that grandchildren are like a crown, that is, they are the “crowning glory” of life. The proverb comes from a culture that places great importance on the family in society and that values its heritage.

[17:6]  ¹⁸ tn The noun תִּפְאָרָת (tif’arat) means “beauty; glory” (BDB 802 s.v.). In this passage “glory” seems to be identified with “glorying; boasting”; so a rendering that children are proud of their parents would be in order. Thus, “glory of children” would be a subjective genitive, the glorying that children do.”

[17:6]  ¹⁹ tc The LXX has inserted: “To the faithful belongs the whole world of wealth, but to the unfaithful not an obulus.” It was apparently some popular sentiment at the time.

[17:6]  tn Heb “their fathers.”

[49:20]  ²⁰ tn Heb “me.” The singular is collective.

[49:20]  ²¹ tn Heb “draw near to me so I can dwell.”

[49:21]  ²² tn Heb “and you will say in your heart.”

[49:21]  ²³ tn Or “exiled and thrust away”; NIV “exiled and rejected.”