Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
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Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
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Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
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Bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck.
Cross-references (7)
Passages linked to Proverbs 6:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 3:3 Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- Proverbs 7:3-4 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,
- 2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.
- Exodus 13:16 It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us out of Egypt.”
- Deuteronomy 6:8 You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.
- Proverbs 4:6 Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
- Proverbs 4:21 Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Read Prov. 3:3.
Read Prov. 3:3.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and]…
Pro 6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.
Ver. 21. Bind them continually.] Observe them with as much care and conscience as thou art bound to do the law of God given by Moses. {Deu 6:8} {See Trapp on "Mat 23:5"}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Bind them continually upon thine heart; constantly remember and…
Bind them continually upon thine heart; constantly remember and duly consider them.
Tie them about thy neck: see on Pro 1:9; 3:3.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain When thou goest, it shall lead thee,.... The law…
When thou goest, it shall lead thee,.... The law of God taught by parents; this directs man in the path of duty and business of life; teaches him what way to shun, and which to walk in; it leads out of the paths of sin, and into the way in which he should go, which is most conducive to his good, and to the glory of God; it will lead him safely, so that he shall not stumble, Pro 3:3;
when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; from terrifying dreams, evil spirits, dangers by fire or thieves; one that observes it conscientiously may lie down and sleep, secure of the guardianship of divine Providence, and not fear any evil; or "shall watch over thee" (h) in the night season;
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and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee; familiarly; and instruct what to do, and how to behave the day following; or "it shall go out with thee" (i), into the fields for a morning's walk, and assist in meditation. Jarchi interprets this of sleeping by death, and of awaking at the resurrection of the dead.
(h) "excubabit apud te", Cocceius; "excubias aget super te", Michaelis, Schultens. (i) "illa ipsa spatiabitur tecum", Schultens.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Bind them - Constantly remember, and duly consider them.
Bind them - Constantly remember, and duly consider them.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 21. Bind them continually upon thine heart] See…
Verse 21. Bind them continually upon thine heart] See on Pr 3:3. And see a similar command, to which this is an allusion, De 6:6-8.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The thought of Pro 3:3 is carried step further.…
The thought of Pro 3:3 is carried step further. No outward charm, but the law of obedience, shall give safety to the traveler, when he sleeps or when he wakes.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. Bind them, etc. — Meaning, Treasure them in…
21. Bind them, etc. — Meaning, Treasure them in your affections; never be ashamed of them or the practice of them; they are your highest ornaments. In the East, where reverence for parents and ancestors is very great, it is a sufficient reason for any custom or practice that one’s fathers or ancestors enjoined it. If parental precepts in general are held sacred, how much more such as these, which are sacred in themselves? Comp. Jer_35:18, the Rechabites.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. heart … neck] See Pro_3:3, note. Perhaps there…
21. heart … neck] See Pro_3:3, note. Perhaps there is also the idea of an amulet or charm tied round the neck. See next verse.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (21) Bind them continually upon thine heart.—See above on…
(21) Bind them continually upon thine heart.—See above on Pro_3:3.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain This verse recalls also Pro_3:3, and reminds us of…
This verse recalls also Pro_3:3, and reminds us of the use of the phylacteries, or tefellim, common among the Jews of our Lord"s time, and the practice of binding which upon various parts of the person may have had its origin in this and such like passages. The "tying about" the neck may suggest the use of amulets, an Oriental custom, to ward off evil, but it is more likely that it refers to the wearing of ornaments. Them; i.e. the commandment and law of father and mother respectively, expressed in the Hebrew by the suffix -em, in the verb kosh"rem, equivalent to liga ea, and again in ondem, equivalent to vinci ea. (For the personal use of this figure, see Son_8:6) Tie them; Hebrew, ondem. The verb anad, "to tie," only occurs twice as a verb here and in Job_31:36. Lee prefers "to bind;" Delitzsch, however, states that it is equivalent to the Latin circumplicare, "to wind about." The meaning of this and similar passages (cf. Pro_7:3 Exo_13:9 Deu_6:8 Deu_11:13) is that the commandment, precept, law, or whatever is intended, should be always present to the mind. The heart suggests that they are to be linked to the affections, and the neck that they will be an ornament decking the moral character.
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