Proverbs 30:17 Cross References - ISV

¹⁷ The eye that mocks a father and looks with a disobedient attitude at a mother— the valley ravens will pluck it out; and vultures will eat it.

²¹ He drank some of the wine, got drunk, and lay down naked right in the middle of his tent. ²² Ham, who fathered Canaan, saw his father’s genitals and told his two brothers outside. ²³ Then Shem and Japheth took their father’s cloak, laid it across both their shoulders, and walking backwards, they both covered their father’s genitals. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father’s genitals. ²⁴ When Noah sobered up and learned what his youngest son had done to him, ²⁵ he said, “Canaan is cursed! He will be the lowest of slaves to his relatives.”
²⁶ He also said, “Blessed be the LORD God of Shem, and may Canaan be his slave. ²⁷ May God make room for Japheth; may God live in Shem’s tents, and may Canaan serve him.”

⁹ Honoring Parents“Anyone who curses his father or mother is certainly to be put to death. He has cursed his father or mother, so his guilt will remain his responsibility.”

¹⁸ Death to a Rebellious Son“If a man has a stubborn son who does not obey his parents, and although they try to discipline him, he still refuses to pay attention to them, ¹⁹ then his parents are to seize him and bring him before the elders at the gate of his city. ²⁰ Then they are to declare to the elders of their city: ‘Our son is stubborn and rebellious. He does not obey us. He lives wildly and is a drunkard.’ ²¹ Then all the men of his city are to stone him with stones so that he dies. This is how you will remove this evil from among you. Then all Israel will hear of it and will be afraid.”

²⁶ Your dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, with no one to chase them away.

⁴⁴ told David, “Come to me! I’ll give your flesh to the birds of the sky and to the beasts of the field.”

⁹ Joab Kills AbsalomAbsalom happened to run into David’s soldiers. While Absalom was trying to get away on his mule, it ran under the thick branches of a giant oak tree, and Absalom’s head got caught in the tree! As his mule ran out from under him, Absalom was left hanging above the ground. ¹⁰ When one of the soldiers saw what had happened, he told Joab, “I saw Absalom stuck in an oak tree!”

¹⁴ “There’s no reason to wait for you!” Joab retorted. Then he took three spears in his hand and stabbed Absalom in the heart while he was still alive, dangling from the branches of the oak tree. ¹⁵ Ten young men who served as Joab’s personal assistants then surrounded Absalom, striking him repeatedly and killing him. ¹⁶ At this, Joab sounded his battle trumpet and his troops stopped pursuing the other Israelis. ¹⁷ Meanwhile, Joab’s army grabbed Absalom’s body, tossed it into a large pit in the forest, and filled it up with a huge pile of rocks. Then the Israelis ran away back to their homes.

¹⁰ Then Aiah’s daughter Rizpah grabbed some sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock where her children had been hanged from the beginning of harvest until the first rain fell from the sky. She would not allow any scavenger birds to land on them during the day nor the beasts of the field to approach them at night.

²⁰ Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the deepest darkness.

²² Listen to the one who fathered you, and don’t despise your mother in her old age.

¹¹ Some people curse their fathers and won’t bless their mothers.