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.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

Listen to your father who sired you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

And he drank of the wine and was drunk. And he was uncovered inside his tent.

And any man who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be on him.

If a man has a son who is stubborn and rebels, who will not obey his father's voice or his mother's voice, even when they have chastened him he will not listen to them,

And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode on 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 heavens and the earth. And the mule under him went away.

The ravens

And 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.

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven. And she did not allow either the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

General references

and Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and had gone to Padan-aram;

every raven according to its kind;