Proverbs Chapter 7
:1-5 My son, keep my words and
treasure my commands within you. Keep my commands and live, and my law as the
apple of your eye*. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet** of
your heart***. Say to Wisdom, “You are my sister” and call Understanding
your nearest kin; that they may keep you from the immoral woman, from the seductress
who flatters with her words. (A common theme in many of the Proverbs is sexual
morality, here we are reminded that seeking and keeping GOD’s Word is a
protection from sexual immorality. As we’ve seen in earlier chapters Wisdom,
Knowledge, Understanding and Discernment are spirits [living beings] of GOD)
:6-23 This is like a parable that
JESUS would tell, it is the story of a simple man who is drawn into sexual
immorality by a woman with “a crafty heart”; she talks him into committing
sexual immorality which she makes clear is her purpose for meeting him. (vss.
13-21) He willingly goes with her as an ox goes to the slaughter or a fool to
the correction of the stocks (a public form of shaming); or unthinkingly, he
does not understand the consequences of his action; which as a Hebrew he should
know under the Torah it is death. JESUS tells us that adultery is not just in
the physical act but in the heart. (Matthew 5:27-32) In Galatians 5:16-26 Paul reminds us to walk
uprightly before GOD and avoid all forms of immorality.
:24-27 Then Solomon spells out the
meaning of the parable. Sin leads to death! (James 1:12-16)
* “apple of your eye” is used
three times in the KJV, (Deuteronomy 32:10; Psalm 17:8; Proverbs 7:2; in
Deuteronomy and Psalm the note in the NKJV says pupil.
Apple: ’iyahôwn = the little
man of the eye; the pupil or ball; hence the middle of the eye.
Eye: ‘ayin = an eye (literally
or figuratively).1
** tablet (table in the KJV): lûwach
or lûach = from a primary root; probably meaning to glisten; a tablet
(as polished) of stone, wood or metal:-board, plate, table.1
*** heart: lêb = the heart;
also used (figuratively) very widely for feelings, the will and even the
intellect; likewise for the center of anything.1
1 Strong’s Exhaustive
Concordance With Hebrew Chaldee and Greek Dictionary, MacDonald Publishing.
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