Proverbs 4:4 (BSB)

he taught me and said, “Let your heart lay hold of my words; keep my commands and you will live.

From Proverbs 4. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 4:4

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 4:1-13: Here we have, I. The invitation which Solomon gives to his children to come and receive instruction from him (Pro 4:1, Pro 4:2): Hear, you children, the instruction of a father. That is, 1. "Let my own children, in the first place, receive and give good heed to those instructions which I set down for the use of others also." Note, Magistrates and ministers, who...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 4:4: 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.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 4:4: He taught--or directed me. retain--as well as receive. keep . . . and live--observe, that you may live (Pro 7:2).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 4:4: He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. (b) Meaning, David his father.