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
Some people curse their fathers and won't bless their mothers.
Proverbs 20:20
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the deepest darkness.
Proverbs 23:22
Listen to the one who fathered you, and don't despise your mother in her old age.
Genesis 9:21
He drank some of the wine, got drunk, and lay down naked right in the middle of his tent.
Leviticus 20:9
"Anyone who curses his father or mother is certainly to be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother, so his guilt will remain his responsibility."
Deuteronomy 21:18
"If a man has a stubborn son who does not obey his parents, and although they try to discipline him, he still refuses to pay attention to them,
2 Samuel 18:9
Absalom happened to run into David's soldiers. While Absalom was trying to get away on his mule, it ran under the thick branches of a giant oak tree, and Absalom's head got caught in the tree! As his mule ran out from under him, Absalom was left hanging above the ground.
The ravens
1 Samuel 17:44
told David, "Come to me! I'll give your flesh to the birds of the sky and to the beasts of the field."
2 Samuel 21:10
Then Aiah's daughter Rizpah grabbed some sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock where her children had been hanged from the beginning of harvest until the first rain fell from the sky. She would not allow any scavenger birds to land on them during the day nor the beasts of the field to approach them at night.
General references
Genesis 28:7
After Jacob had obeyed his father and mother's instructions to set out for Paddan-aram,
Leviticus 11:15
every kind of raven,