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

A generation! Its father, it revileth, and, its mother, it doth not bless.

Whoso revileth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

Hearken to thy father here, who begat thee, and despise not, when she is old, thy mother.

and dank of the wine and became drunk, and uncovered himself in the midst of his tent.

When, any man whatsoever, curseth his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death, - his father or his mother, hath he cursed, his blood, shall be upon himself.

When a man hath a son, rebellious and insulting, who will not hearken to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, - though they chastise him, yet will not hearken unto them,

Now, when Absolom met the servants of David, Absolom, was riding upon a mule, and the mule came under the thick branches of a large oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, the mule that was under him passing on.

The ravens

And the Philistine said unto David, - Come, unto me, that I may give thy flesh to the birds of heaven, and to the beasts of the field.

Then Rizpah daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth, and spread it out for herself, on the rock, from the beginning of harvest, until water poured out upon them from the heavens, - and suffered neither the birds of the heavens to rest on them by day, nor the wild beasts of the field, to devour them by night.

General references

And that Jacob hearkened unto his father and unto his mother, - and took his journey to Padan-aram.

every raven, after its kind;