Proverbs 30:17
The eye that mocks at his father, And scorns obedience to his mother: The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, The young eagles shall eat it.
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- Prov 23:22 : 22 Listen to your father who gave you life, And don't despise your mother when she is old.
- Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses their father, And doesn't bless their mother.
- Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man have 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; 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place; 20 and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
- Deut 28:26 : 26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.
- 1 Sam 17:44 : 44 The Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the field.
- 2 Sam 18:9-9 : 9 Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the sky and earth; and the mule that was under him went on. 10 A certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.
- 2 Sam 18:14-17 : 14 Then said Joab, I may not wait thus with you. He took three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. 15 Ten young men who bore Joab's armor compassed about and struck Absalom, and killed him. 16 Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people. 17 They took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled everyone to his tent.
- 2 Sam 21:10 : 10 Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
- Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
- Gen 9:21-27 : 21 He drank of the wine, and got drunk. He was uncovered within his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brothers outside. 23 Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it on both their shoulders, went in backwards, and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were backwards, and they didn't see their father's nakedness. 24 Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done to him. 25 He said, "Cursed be Canaan; A servant of servants will he be to his brothers." 26 He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant. 27 God enlarge Japheth, Let him dwell in the tents of Shem; Let Canaan be his servant."
- Lev 20:9 : 9 "'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
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11 There is a generation that curses their father, And doesn't bless their mother.
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