Deuteronomy 21:18

'When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious — he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them —

Young's Literal Translation

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 first-born, son of the hated one, he doth acknowledge, 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 first-born.

19then laid hold on him have his father and his mother, and they have brought him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place,

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Cross References

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

Leviticus 19:3'Each his mother and his father ye do fear, and My sabbaths ye do keep; I [am] Jehovah your God.

Deuteronomy 8:5and thou hast known, with thy heart, that as a man chastiseth his son Jehovah thy God is chastising thee,

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

Proverbs 13:24Whoso is sparing his rod is hating his son, And whoso is loving him hath hastened him chastisement.

Proverbs 19:18Chastise thy son, for there is hope, And to put him to death lift not up thy soul.

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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