Proverbs 7:3
Tie my commands around your fingers in order that they will remind you to obey them. Always keep them in mind [MET].
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:8Write them on tiny scrolls and fasten them to your arms/wrists, and write them on bands that you fasten to your foreheads to help you to remember them.
Proverbs 3:3Always faithfully love others and ◄be faithful/do what you say that you will do►; doing those things will cause others to be pleased with you; it will be as though you are wearing a beautiful necklace. Keep those things in your mind/inner being.
Proverbs 6:21Remember the things that we have said. Those things should be like a beautiful necklace around your neck.
Isaiah 59:21This is what Yahweh says to his people: “This is the agreement that I will make with you: My Spirit will not leave you, and you will always have my message. You will be able to declare it [MTY], and your children and grandchildren will be able to declare it forever.”
Jeremiah 31:33This is what I, Yahweh, say: ‘This is the new agreement that I will make with the people of Israel some day: I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their inner beings. I will be their God, and they will 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 →