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

A generation is, that lightly esteemeth their father, And their mother doth not bless.

Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother, Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness.

Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

and drinketh of the wine, and is drunken, and uncovereth himself in the midst of the tent.

For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood is on him.

When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --

And Absalom meeteth before the servants of David, and Absalom is riding on the mule, and the mule cometh in under an entangled bough of the great oak, and his head taketh hold on the oak, and he is placed between the heavens and the earth, and the mule that is under him hath passed on.

The ravens

and the Philistine saith unto David, 'Come unto me, and I give thy flesh to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the field.'

And Rizpah daughter of Aiah taketh the sackcloth, and stretcheth it out for herself on the rock, from the commencement of harvest till water hath been poured out upon them from the heavens, and hath not suffered a fowl of the heavens to rest upon them by day, or the beast of the field by night.

General references

that Jacob hearkeneth unto his father and unto his mother, and goeth to Padan-Aram --

every raven after its kind,