Proverbs - 6:21



21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

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Explanation and meaning of Proverbs 6:21.

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Bind them in thy heart continually, and put them about thy neck.
Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
Bind them to your heart unceasingly, and encircle them around your throat.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The thought of Proverbs 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.

Bind them continually upon thine heart - See on Proverbs 3:3 (note). And see a similar command, to which this is an allusion, Deuteronomy 6:6-8 (note).

Bind them continually upon thine (i) heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.
(i) (Proverbs 3:3).

Bind them continually upon thine heart,.... Not upon the head or arm, as the words of the law were to be bound, Deuteronomy 6:3; to which there seems to be an allusion; and which may confirm the sense of the words given, that this respects the law of God itself, and the precepts of it, instructed in by parents; but they should be bound upon the heart, and have an abiding place in the understanding, affections, memory, and will;
and tie them about thy neck; as an ornament, instead of a necklace of pearl, or chains of gold; they should be so far from being thought burdensome and troublesome, that they should be reckoned comely and graceful; see Proverbs 1:9.

Bind them - Constantly remember, and duly consider them.

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