Proverbs 30:17
"The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it."
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- 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:"
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 30:11
"There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 23:22
"Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 18:14
"Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And 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."
Read in chapter → - Leviticus 20:9
"For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 20:20
"Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 9:21
"And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent."
Read in chapter → - 1 Samuel 17:44
"And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field."
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 21:10
"And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night."
Read in chapter → - Deuteronomy 28:26
"And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away."
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