Deuteronomy 21:18

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:

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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 son of the hated for the firstborn, 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 shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

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Cross References

Exodus 21:15And he that strikes his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Leviticus 19:3All of you shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

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

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

Proverbs 13:24He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him chastens him early.

Proverbs 19:18Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.

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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