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 is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
Proverbs 20:20
The one who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the blackest darkness.
Proverbs 23:22
Listen to your father who begot you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Genesis 9:21
When he drank some of the wine, he got drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.
Leviticus 20:9
"'If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.
Deuteronomy 21:18
If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,
2 Samuel 18:9
Then Absalom happened to come across David's men. Now as Absalom was riding on his mule, it went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair, while the mule he had been riding kept going.
The ravens
1 Samuel 17:44
The Philistine said to David, "Come here to me, so I can give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the field!"
2 Samuel 21:10
Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, she did not allow the birds of the air to feed on them by day, nor the wild animals by night.
General references
Genesis 28:7
Jacob obeyed his father and mother and left for Paddan Aram.
Leviticus 11:15
every kind of crow,