Deuteronomy 21:18

And if any man has a disobedient and contentious son, who hearkens not to the voice of his father and the voice of his mother, and they should correct him, and he should not hearken to them;

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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 he shall acknowledge the firstborn of the hated one to give to him double of all things which shall be found by him, because he is the first of his children, and to him belongs the birthright.

19then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him forth to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place:

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Cross References

Exodus 21:15Whoever smites his father or his mother, let him be certainly put to death.

Leviticus 19:3Let every one of you reverence his father and his mother; and ye shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 8:5And thou shalt know in thy heart, that as if any man should chasten his son, so the Lord thy God will chasten thee.

2 Samuel 7:14I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. And when he happens to transgress, then will I chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the sons of men.

Proverbs 13:24He that spares the rod hates his son: 1 But he that loves, carefully chastens him. 1

Proverbs 19:18Chasten thy son, for so he shall be hopeful; 1 And be not exalted in thy soul to haughtiness. 1

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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