Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
19They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of his city, and to the gate of judgment,
Cross References
Exodus 21:15He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.
Leviticus 19:3Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 8:5That thou mayst consider in thy heart, that as a man traineth up his son, so the Lord thy God hath trained thee up.
2 Samuel 7:14I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son: and if he commit any iniquity, I will correct him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men.
Proverbs 13:24He that spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes.
Proverbs 19:18Chastise thy son, despair not: but to the killing of him set not thy soul.
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 →