Proverbs 7:3
Bind them on your fingers. 2 Write them on the tablet of your heart. 1
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In The King James Version
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
In Context
2Obey my mitzvot ·instructions· and live! 2 Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. 1
4Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” 2 Call understanding your relative, 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:8+ 6:8. Deut 6:8 (Deut 6:4-9, 11:18) (#1.35): T. To bind God’s Instructions (Deut 11:8) as a sign on your hands / R. To wear tefillin ·phylacteries· on the arm You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, + 6:8. Deut 6:8 (Deut 6:4-9, 11:18) (#1.36): T. To bind God’s Instructions (Deut 11:8) as frontlets between your eyes / R. To wear tefillin ·phylacteries· on the head, on your forehead and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
Proverbs 3:3Don’t let chesed ·loving-kindness· and truth forsake you. 2 Bind them around your neck. 2 Write them on the tablet of your heart. 1
Proverbs 6:21Bind them continually on your heart. 2 Tie them around your neck. 1
Isaiah 59:21“As for me, this is my covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties· with them,” + 59:21. (20-21) Quoted in Rom 11:26-27 says Adonai. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your offspring, nor out of the mouth of your offspring’s offspring,” says Adonai, “from henceforth and forever.”
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 →