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Psalms 107:38
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
He blesseth: Psalms 128:1-6, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 9:1, Genesis 12:2, Genesis 17:16, Genesis 17:20, Exodus 1:7, Deuteronomy 28:4, Deuteronomy 28:11, Deuteronomy 30:9, Jeremiah 30:19, Ezekiel 37:26
suffereth: Psalms 144:13, Psalms 144:14, Genesis 30:43, Genesis 31:9, Exodus 9:3-7, Exodus 12:38, Deuteronomy 7:14, Proverbs 10:22
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:22 - General Genesis 8:17 - breed Genesis 24:35 - flocks Genesis 47:27 - grew Exodus 23:26 - shall nothing Leviticus 26:9 - make you Job 1:2 - seven sons Job 1:10 - thou hast blessed Job 12:23 - increaseth Job 42:12 - he had Isaiah 9:3 - hast multiplied
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Gill's Notes on the Bible
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly,.... Not only their fields and vineyards are blessed with an increase, but these husbandmen themselves; as man at his first creation was bid to do, being blessed of God; and as the Israelites were in Egypt, Genesis 1:28 and which may spiritually denote the great number of converts to Christian churches, especially in the latter day,
Jeremiah 30:19.
And suffereth not their cattle to decrease; their sheep and oxen, which is reckoned a great temporal happiness, Psalms 144:13, and may signify that God does and will give a sufficient number of Gospel ministers, comparable to oxen for their laboriousness, that shall in all ages minister to his churches; see 1 Corinthians 9:9.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He blesseth them also - In the manner immediately specified.
So that they are multiplied greatly - This was regarded as one of the highest blessings which God could confer, and hence, it was so often promised by him to the patriarchs, as a proof of his favor, that their seed should be as the stars of heaven, and as the sand upon the sea-shore. Genesis 13:16; Genesis 22:17; Genesis 26:4; Genesis 32:12.
And suffereth not their cattle to decrease - The keeping of herds of cattle was also an important point in husbandry, and hence, it was a blessing that they were made to increase, and that they were kept from the diseases to which cattle are subject.