Proverbs 30:17

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Proverbs 30:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enough!’:

16 Sheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’

17 As for the eye that mocks a father and scorns obedience to a mother, may the ravens of the valley pluck it out and young vultures devour it.

18 There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand:

19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden.

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Proverbs 30:11

There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.

Proverbs 20:20

Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.

Proverbs 23:22

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

Genesis 9:21

But when he drank some of its wine, he became drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent.

Genesis 9:22

And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw his father’s nakedness and told his two brothers outside.

Genesis 9:23

Then Shem and Japheth took a garment and placed it across their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

Genesis 9:24

When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,

Genesis 9:25

he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”

Genesis 9:26

He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.

Genesis 9:27

May God expand the territory of Japheth; may he dwell in the tents of Shem, and may Canaan be his servant.”

Leviticus 20:9

If anyone curses his father or mother, he must be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Deuteronomy 21:18

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,

Deuteronomy 21:19

his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,

Deuteronomy 21:20

and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Deuteronomy 21:21

Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

2 Samuel 18:9

Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.

2 Samuel 18:10

When one of the men saw this, he told Joab, “I just saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree!”

2 Samuel 18:14

But Joab declared, “I am not going to wait like this with you!” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was still alive in the oak tree.

2 Samuel 18:15

And ten young men who carried Joab’s armor surrounded Absalom, struck him, and killed him.

2 Samuel 18:16

Then Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab had restrained them.

2 Samuel 18:17

They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home.

1 Samuel 17:44

“Come here,” he called to David, “and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and the beasts of the field!”

2 Samuel 21:10

And 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 from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.