Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

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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, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

19then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

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Cross References

Exodus 21:15“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

Leviticus 19:3“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 8:5You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.

2 Samuel 7:14I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the children of men;

Proverbs 13:24One who spares the rod hates his son, but one who loves him is careful to discipline him.

Proverbs 19:18Discipline your son, for there is hope; don’t be a willing party to his 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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