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Proverbs 4:4
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he taught me and said:“Your heart must hold on to my words.Keep my commands and live.
He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my mitzvot, and live.
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
he taught me and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.
my father taught me and said, "Hold on to my words with all your heart. Keep my commands and you will live.
he taught me, and he said to me: "Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands so that you will live.
He taught me and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; Keep my commandments and live.
He taught me and said to me, "Let your heart take hold of my words; Keep my commandments and live;
He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
When he taught me, and sayde vnto me, Let thine heart holde fast my woordes: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue.
Then he instructed me and said to me,"Let your heart hold fast my words;Keep my commandments and live;
he taught me and said, "Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commandments and you will live.
said to me: "If you follow my teachings and keep them in mind, you will live.
He too taught me; he said to me, "Let your heart treasure my words; keep my commands, and live;
And he taught me, and said unto me, Let thy heart retain my words; keep my commandments and live.
my father taught me this: "Pay attention to what I say. Obey my commands and you will have a good life.
He taught me, and said to me, Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live; and let my law be as the pupil of the eye.
my father would teach me. He would say, "Remember what I say and never forget it. Do as I tell you, and you will live.
he taught me and said to me, "May your heart hold fast to my words; guard my commandments and live.
And he taught me and said to me, Let your heart cling to my words; keep my commands and live.
he taught me also, sayenge: let thine herte receaue my wordes, kepe my commaundementes, and thou shalt lyue.
And he taught me, and said unto me: Let thy heart retain my words; Keep my commandments, and live;
And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:
And he taught me, and said unto me: 'Let thy heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments, and live;
He taught me also, and said vnto me, Let thine heart reteine my wordes: keepe my commandements, and liue.
He taught me also and sayde vnto me, let thyne heart receaue my wordes, kepe my commaundementes and thou shalt liue.
who spoke and instructed me, saying, Let our speech be fixed in thine heart, keep our commandments, forget them not:
And he taught me, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words; keep my commandments, and live:
And my fadir tauyte me, and seide, Thin herte resseyue my wordis; kepe thou myn heestis, and thou schalt lyue.
And he taught me, and said to me: Let your heart retain my words; Keep my commandments, and live;
He taught me also, and said to me, Let thy heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
He also taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words; Keep my commands, and live.
My father taught me, "Take my words to heart. Follow my commands, and you will live.
he taught me, saying, "Hold my words close to your heart. Keep my teachings and live.
he taught me, and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.
So he taught me, and said to me - Let thy heart, lay hold of my words, Keep my commandments and live!
And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.
he taught me, and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live;
And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.
Then he taught me and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; Keep my commandments and live;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
He: Proverbs 22:6, Genesis 18:19, 1 Chronicles 22:11-16, 1 Chronicles 28:9, Ephesians 6:4, 2 Timothy 1:5, 2 Timothy 3:15
Let: Proverbs 3:1, Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 6:6, Psalms 119:11
keep: Proverbs 7:2, Leviticus 18:3-5, Isaiah 55:3, John 12:50, Hebrews 5:9
Reciprocal: Judges 13:12 - How shall we order the child Job 22:22 - lay up Psalms 37:31 - law Proverbs 4:11 - taught Proverbs 4:22 - life Proverbs 6:23 - the way Proverbs 10:17 - the way Proverbs 19:8 - he that keepeth Proverbs 22:17 - and hear Luke 2:19 - General John 15:7 - my 2 Timothy 1:13 - Hold
Cross-References
Cain left the presence of God and lived in No-Man's-Land, east of Eden.
Cain slept with his wife. She conceived and had Enoch. He then built a city and named it after his son, Enoch. Enoch had Irad, Irad had Mehujael, Mehujael had Methushael, Methushael had Lamech.
Lamech married two wives, Adah and Zillah. Adah gave birth to Jabal, the ancestor of all who live in tents and herd cattle. His brother's name was Jubal, the ancestor of all who play the lyre and flute. Zillah gave birth to Tubal-Cain, who worked at the forge making bronze and iron tools. Tubal-Cain's sister was Naamah.
When the sun was down and it was dark, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch moved between the split carcasses. That's when God made a covenant with Abram: "I'm giving this land to your children, from the Nile River in Egypt to the River Euphrates in Assyria—the country of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites."
Then God sent lightning. The fire cremated the 250 men who were offering the incense.
"On the other hand, you don't redeem a firstborn ox, sheep, or goat—they are holy. Instead splash their blood on the Altar and burn their fat as a Fire-Gift, a pleasing fragrance to God . But you get the meat, just as you get the breast from the Wave-Offering and the right thigh. All the holy offerings that the People of Israel set aside for God , I'm turning over to you and your children. That's the standard rule and includes both you and your children—a Covenant-of-Salt, eternal and unchangeable before God ."
The angel of God stretched out the tip of the stick he was holding and touched the meat and the bread. Fire broke out of the rock and burned up the meat and bread while the angel of God slipped away out of sight. And Gideon knew it was the angel of God! Gideon said, "Oh no! Master, God ! I have seen the angel of God face-to-face!"
Immediately the fire of God fell and burned up the offering, the wood, the stones, the dirt, and even the water in the trench.
When Solomon finished praying, a bolt of lightning out of heaven struck the Whole-Burnt-Offering and sacrifices and the Glory of God filled The Temple. The Glory was so dense that the priests couldn't get in— God so filled The Temple that there was no room for the priests! When all Israel saw the fire fall from heaven and the Glory of God fill The Temple, they fell on their knees, bowed their heads, and worshiped, thanking God : Yes! God is good! His love never quits!
By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. That's what God noticed and approved as righteous. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He taught me also, and said unto me,.... The Targum is,
"they taught me,''
his father and his mother; and so the Septuagint version,
"who said and taught me;''
and the Arabic version,
"they both taught me, and said unto me;''
but in the Hebrew it is singular, and is restrained to the father. He taught him when he was very young, and also gave him instructions when he was older, and a little before his own death; see 1 Chronicles 28:8; he taught him by the several psalms he wrote; some of which are called "maschil", instructive or causing to understand; two of them particularly were written for him, the seventy-second and the hundred twenty-seventh psalms; he taught him in the following words. How far the words of David his father reach is not agreed on, on all hands; some think they end with Proverbs 4:5; others with Proverbs 4:6, others with the Proverbs 4:9, and the words of Solomon begin at Proverbs 4:10: some will have it that they take in the whole chapter, which is not probable; nay, others say that the whole of the book following is his, which can by no means be agreed to: it seems most likely to me that they end at Proverbs 4:6, and at most are not to be carried beyond Proverbs 4:9;
let thine heart retain my words: says David to his son: the instructions he gave him by word of mouth, concerning his moral behaviour, relating to political things, the government of the people; and especially such as concerned the everlasting welfare of his soul, or were about Wisdom or Christ, and the knowledge of divine and spiritual things; these he would have him lay up in his heart, and keep them there, as a rich treasure, to have recourse unto upon all occasions;
keep my commandments, and live: which commandments may respect him both in his private and public capacity, and in a religious and political one; how he should behave as a man, a king, and one that feared God: as well as they may respect his orders for the building of the temple, and settling and establishing the worship of God in it; by observing which he would live comfortably and honourably, and to a good old age.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The counsel which has come to him, in substance, from his father. Compare it with 2 Samuel 23:2 etc.; 1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Chronicles 29:17; Psalms 15:1-5; Psalms 24:1-10; Psalms 37:0.
Proverbs 4:7
Or, âThe beginning of wisdom is - get wisdom.â To seek is to find, to desire is to obtain.
Proverbs 4:12
The ever-recurring parable of the journey of life. In the way of wisdom the path is clear and open, obstacles disappear; in the quickest activity (âwhen thou runnestâ) there is no risk of falling.
Proverbs 4:13
She is thy life - Another parallel between personified Wisdom in this book and the Incarnate Wisdom in John 1:4.
Proverbs 4:16
A fearful stage of debasement. Sin is the condition without which there can be no repose.
Proverbs 4:17
i. e., Bread and wine gained by unjust deeds. Compare Amos 2:8. A less probable interpretation is, âThey eat wickedness as bread, and drink violence as wine.â Compare Job 15:16; Job 34:7.
Proverbs 4:18
Shining ... shineth - The two Hebrew words are different; the first having the sense of bright or clear. The beauty of a cloudless sunshine growing on, shining as it goes, to the full and perfect day, is chosen as the fittest figure of the ever increasing brightness of the good manâs life. Compare the marginal reference.
Proverbs 4:19
Compare our Lordâs teaching John 11:10; John 12:35.
Proverbs 4:20
The teacher speaks again in his own person.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 4:4. He taught me also, and said — Open thy heart to receive my instructions-receive them with affection; when heard, retain and practise them; and thou shalt live-the great purpose of thy being brought into the world shall be accomplished in thee.
