Psalms 34:11

Come, ye children,.... Meaning either his own children, those of his own family, judging it his duty to instruct them, and bring them up in the fear of the Lord; or his subjects, to whom he stood in…

Come, ye children - From persons in general Psa 34:8 - from the saints and the pious Psa 34:9 - the psalmist now turns to children - to the young - that he may state to them the result of his own…

David, in this latter part of the psalm, undertakes to teach children. Though a man of war, and anointed to be king, he did not think it below him; though now he had his head so full of cares and his…

the fear of the Lord Including both the devout reverence which is essential to a right relation of man to God, and the conduct which it demands. The phrase is characteristic of Proverbs, occurring in…