Proverbs 30:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Eye

2 Samuel 18:9

The ravens

1 Samuel 17:44

2 Samuel 21:10

General references

Genesis 28:7

Leviticus 11:15

Bible References

Eye

There is a generation that curses their father, and does not bless their mother.

Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his fire shall be put out in obscure darkness.

Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.

and he drank of the wine and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.

For any man that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

When anyone has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them,

And Absalom met the slaves of David. And Absalom rode upon a 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 heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

The ravens

And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the heaven and to the beasts of the field.

And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth and spread it upon the rock from the beginning of harvest until water rained upon them out of heaven and allowed neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

General references

and that Jacob had hearkened unto his father and his mother and had gone to Padanaram;

every raven according to his species,