Proverbs 7:3
Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
In Context
2Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:
4Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:8And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.
Proverbs 3:3Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy neck, and write them in the tables of thy heart.
Proverbs 6:21Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.
Isaiah 59:21This is my covenant with them, saith the Lord: My spirit that is in thee, and my words that I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever. This is my covenant, etc... Note here a clear promise of perpetual orthodoxy to the church of Christ.
Jeremiah 31:33But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my law in their bowels, and I will write it in their heart: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:2-6
The Word of God Recommended. 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, ch. vi.… Read the whole commentary →