Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man produces a disobedient and reckless son, who will not listen to the orders of his father or mother, and, having been corrected, shows contempt for obedience:
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In Context
19they shall take him and lead him to the elders of the city and to the gate of judgment.
Cross References
Exodus 21:15Whoever strikes his father or mother shall die a death.
Leviticus 19:3Let each one fear his father and his mother. Observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 8:5so that you would recognize in your heart that, just as a man educates his son, so has the Lord your God educated you.
2 Samuel 7:14I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me. And if he will commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men and with the wounds of the sons of men.
Proverbs 13:24He who spares the rod hates his son. But he who loves him urgently instructs him.
Proverbs 19:18Teach your son; do not despair. But do not set your soul toward putting him to death.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 21:16-18
The Right of the Firstborn. ( b. c. 1451.) 15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: 16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that… Read the whole commentary →