Deuteronomy 21:18
If someone has an obstinate and rebellious son who doesn't obey his parents and doesn't obey them even when he's punished,
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19his parents must take him to the town elders, to the court in his hometown,
Cross References
Exodus 21:15Anyone who hits their father or mother must be executed.
Leviticus 19:3Show respect for your mother and father, and keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 8:5So you should realize that just as a parent disciplines their child, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
2 Samuel 7:14I will be a father to him, and he will be a son to me. If he does wrong, I will discipline him with the rod like people do, like a parent punishing a child.
Proverbs 13:24People who don't discipline their children hate them. Those who love their children carefully discipline them.
Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son while there's still hope, but don't kill him.
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 →