Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
Come, ye children. Though a warrior and a king, the psalmist was not ashamed to teach children. Teachers of youth belong to the true peerage; their work is honourable, and their reward shall be glorious. Perhaps the boys and girls of Gath had made sport of David in his seeming madness, and if so, he here aims by teaching the rising race to undo the...
children--subjects of instruction (Pro 1:8, Pro 1:10).
Psa 34:11-14 (Hebrew_Bible_34:12-15) The first main division of the Psalm is ended; the second (much the same as in Psa 32:1-11) assumes more the tone of a didactic poem; although even Psa 34:6, Psa 34:9 have something of the didactic style about them. The poet first of all gives a direction for fearing God.
Commenting on Psalm 34:11-14