Proverbs 22:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

Proverbs 22:17 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 23:12
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Proverbs 3:1
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Psalms 90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Ecclesiastes 7:25
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
Proverbs 1:3
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-21)

Solomon here changes his style and manner of speaking. Hitherto, for the most part, since the beginning of Prov. 10:1; he had laid down doctrinal truths, and but now and then dropped a word of exhortation, leaving us to make the application as we went along; but here, to the end of Prov. 22:17-24:34; he directs his speech to his son, his pupil, his reader, his hearer, speaking as to a particular p…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. Here begins another division of the book, marked by those encouragements to the pursuit of wisdom, which are found in the earlier chapters. It will be observed that at Pr 22:22-24:12, the proverbs are generally expressed in two verses instead of one (see Introduction).