Deuteronomy Chapter 21 verse 18 Holy Bible
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;
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If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:
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If a man have an unmanageable and rebellious son, who hearkeneth not unto the voice of his father, nor unto the voice of his mother, and they have chastened him, but he hearkeneth not unto them;
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If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
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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:
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If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
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`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 --
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 18-21. - If a son was refractory and unmanageable by his parents, if, given to sensual indulgence, he would yield neither to reproof nor to chastisement, - the parents were to lay hold on him, and lead him to the elders of the town, sitting as magistrates at its gates, and there accuse him of his evil ways and rebelliousness. The testimony of the parents was apparently held sufficient to substantiate the charge, and this being received by the elders, the culprit was to be put to death by stoning.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersDeuteronomy 21:18-21. THE INCORRIGIBLE SON.(18) If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son.--Here we are again reminded that the Law of Jehovah was also the civil and criminal law of Israel. The systematic breach of the first commandment of the second table of the Law, no less than of the first commandment of the first table, entailed the penalty of death. Manifestly this enactment, if carried out, would be a great protection to the country against lawless and abandoned characters, and would rid it of one very large element in the dangerous classes.(20) Stubborn and rebellious.--The Hebrew words became proverbial as the worst form of reproach, sorer --moreh. This word moreh was the one employed by Moses, when, speaking "unadvisedly" (Numbers 20:10), he said to the people, "Hear now, ye rebels, must we fetch you water out of this rock?" It appears in the Revised New Testament, in the margin of St. Matthew 5:22, for "thou fool." But the Greek word there employed is true Greek, and has its own affinities in the New Testament. And the word moreh is true Hebrew. They may be idiomatically synonymous. They are not etymologically identical.A glutton and a drunkard.--The same two words are found in Proverbs 23:20-22, "Be not among wine bibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. Hearken unto thy father that begat thee; and despise not thy mother when she is old." The context of this quotation seems to make it a distinct reference to the law in Deuteronomy 21(21) Shall stone him with stones.--Rashi says that the Law cuts short the man's career, anticipating what its close will be. When he has spent all his father's money, he will take to the road, and become a public robber. It is better that he die innocent of such crimes than guilty. We can hardly adopt this view of the case; but it contains one feature that is terribly true. . . .
