Proverbs 7:3
Tie them on your fingers; 1 write them on the tablet of your heart. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
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 1 and keep my instruction as the apple of your eye. 1
4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” 1 and call understanding your kinsman, 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:8You will tie them as a sign upon your hand, and they will serve as frontlets between your eyes.
Proverbs 3:3Do not let covenant faithfulness and trustworthiness ever leave you, 1 tie them together about your neck, 1 write them on the tablet of your heart. 1
Proverbs 6:21Always bind them on your heart; 1 tie them about your neck. 1
Isaiah 59:21As for me, this is my covenant with them—says Yahweh—my spirit who is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not leave your mouth, or go out of the mouth of your children, or go out of the mouth of your children's children—says Yahweh—from this time and forever.”
Jeremiah 31:33This is the covenant 2 that I will establish with the house of Israel 1 after these days 2 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1 I will place my law within them 2 and will write it on their heart, 1 for I will be their God, 2 and they will be my people. 1
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 →