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 curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

Whoever curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.

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

And he drank the wine, and was drunken, and he was uncovered within his tent.

For every one that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

If a man shall have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him, will not hearken to them:

And Absalom met the servants of David. And Absalom rode upon 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 suspended between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.

The ravens

And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh to the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

General references

And that Jacob obeyed his father, and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;

Every raven after his kind;