But God motivates His people to obey this command by showing us that children are a blessing. But the chastisement is not childbearing, but the sorrows connected with it. Besides, the entire Old Testament speaks a different language than that children are a curse. Happy is the man whose quiver is full of them. Children are a blessing.
Many children are a blessing.
Every child is a blessing to believing parents. The 12th child is a blessing. The deformed child is a blessing. The difficult child is a blessing. But a blessing nevertheless, of God.