Proverbs 30:17

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The eye that mocks a father, that scorns obedience to a mother, will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures.

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  • Prov 23:22 : 22 Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
  • Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curses its father and does not bless its mother.
  • Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother, and they discipline him but he will not listen to them, 19 his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city. 20 They shall say to the elders, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not listen to us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
  • Deut 28:26 : 26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.
  • 1 Sam 17:44 : 44 Then he said to David, 'Come here, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the field.'
  • 2 Sam 18:9-9 : 9 Absalom happened to meet David’s servants. He was riding his mule when it passed under the thick branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the tree, leaving him hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule under him kept going. 10 A man saw what had happened and told Joab, 'I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.'
  • 2 Sam 18:14-17 : 14 Joab said, 'I cannot linger here with you.' So he took three spears in his hand and thrust them into Absalom’s heart while he was still alive, hanging in the oak tree. 15 Ten of Joab’s young armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him. 16 Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops stopped pursuing Israel, for Joab had restrained them. 17 They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a great heap of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled to their homes.
  • 2 Sam 21:10 : 10 Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain poured down from the heavens on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the sky to rest on them by day or the wild animals by night.
  • Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoever curses their father or mother, their lamp will be extinguished in utter darkness.
  • Gen 9:21-27 : 21 He drank some of the wine, became drunk, and uncovered himself inside his tent. 22 Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father's nakedness and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it across their shoulders, and walked backward to cover their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so they would not see their father’s nakedness. 24 When Noah awoke from his wine and learned what his youngest son had done to him, 25 he said, 'Cursed be Canaan! The lowest of slaves will he be to his brothers.' 26 He also said, 'Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem.' 27 May God enlarge Japheth's territory, and may he dwell in the tents of Shem; and may Canaan be his servant.
  • Lev 20:9 : 9 Anyone who curses his father or mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood is upon him.

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