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 19:3“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
• Exod 20:12“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
• Amos 4:11–12“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
• Heb 12:9–11Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
• Prov 20:20Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
• Isa 1:5Why should you be beaten more, that you 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, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
• Prov 29:17Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
• Prov 19:18Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his death.
• Prov 23:13–14Don’t withhold correction from a child. If you punish him with the rod, he will not die.
• Prov 30:17“The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.
• Prov 22:15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
• Jer 31:18“I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
• Prov 13:24One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.
• Deut 27:16‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
• 2 Sam 7:14I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;
• Ezek 24:13In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.
• Deut 8:5You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.
• Lev 21:9“‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.
• Jer 5:3O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have 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 you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
• Prov 30:11There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn’t bless their mother.
• Prov 28:24Whoever robs his father or his mother, and says, “It’s not wrong.” He is a partner with a destroyer.
• Exod 21:15“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
• Prov 15:5A fool despises his father’s correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.
• Exod 21:17“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
• Prov 1:8My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

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