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
The ravens
General references
Bible References
Eye
Proverbs 30:11
There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
Proverbs 20:20
If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
Proverbs 23:22
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Genesis 9:21
He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.
Leviticus 20:9
For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.
Deuteronomy 21:18
"If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,
2 Samuel 18:9
And Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak,and his head caught fast in the oak, and he was suspended between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him went on.
The ravens
1 Samuel 17:44
The Philistine said to David, "Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field."
2 Samuel 21:10
Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.
General references
Genesis 28:7
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and his mother and gone to Paddan-aram.
Leviticus 11:15
every raven of any kind,