Deuteronomy 21:18

When a man has a son apostatizing and being rebellious—he is not listening to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they have disciplined him, and he does not listen to them—

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

In Context

17But the firstborn, son of the hated one, he acknowledges, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he [is] the beginning of his strength; to him [is] the right of the firstborn.

19then his father and his mother have laid hold on him, and they have brought him out to [the] elderly of his city, and to the gate of his place,

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Cross References

Exodus 21:15And he who strikes his father or his mother is certainly put to death.

Leviticus 19:3You each fear his mother and his father, and you keep My Sabbaths; I [am] your God YHWH.

Deuteronomy 8:5and you have known with your heart that as a man disciplines his son, your God YHWH is disciplining you,

2 Samuel 7:14I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealing perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam,

Proverbs 13:24Whoever is sparing his rod is hating his son, || And whoever is loving him has hurried his discipline.

Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son, for there is hope, || And do not lift up your soul to put 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 →

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