Proverbs 7:3
Bind them on your fingers, || Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
In Context
2Keep my commands, and live, || And my law as the pupil of your eye.
4Say to wisdom, “You [are] my sister.” And cry to understanding, “Relative!”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:8and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes,
Proverbs 3:3Do not let kindness and truth forsake you, || Bind them on your neck, || Write them on the tablet of your heart,
Proverbs 6:21Bind them on your heart continually, || Tie them on your neck.
Isaiah 59:21“And I—this [is] My covenant with them,” said YHWH, “My Spirit that [is] on you, || And My words that I have put in your mouth, || Do not depart from your mouth, || And from the mouth of your seed, || And from the mouth of your seed’s seed,” said YHWH, “From now on, even for all time!”
Jeremiah 31:33“For this [is] the covenant that I make, || With the house of Israel, after those days,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “I have given My law in their inward part, || And I write it on their heart, || And I have been their God, || And they are 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 →