Deuteronomy 21:18

This introduces the case of a persistently rebellious son who refuses all parental correction. It frames the gravity of honoring father and mother in the covenant community.

Cross-references · 28

• Lev 19:3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
• Exod 20:12Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
• Amos 4:11–12I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
• Heb 12:9–11Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
• Prov 20:20Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
• Isa 1:5Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
• Eph 6:1–3Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
• Isa 1:2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
• Prov 29:17Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
• Prov 19:18Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
• Prov 23:13–14Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
• Prov 30:17The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
• Prov 22:15Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
• Jer 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
• Prov 13:24He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
• Deut 27:16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• 2 Sam 7:14I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
• Ezek 24:13In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.
• Deut 8:5Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
• Lev 21:9And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
• Jer 5:3O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
• Ezek 22:7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.
• Prov 30:11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
• Prov 28:24Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
• Exod 21:15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
• Prov 15:5A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
• Exod 21:17And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
• Prov 1:8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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