Deuteronomy 21:18
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New International Version (©1984)
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Parents might have a stubborn and rebellious son who doesn't obey them. Even though they punish him, he still won't listen to them.

King James Bible
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:

American King James Version
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 listen to them:

American Standard Version
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;

Bible in Basic English
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:

Douay-Rheims Bible
If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:

Darby Bible Translation
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;

English Revised Version
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 though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them:

Webster's Bible Translation
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:

World English Bible
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;

Young's Literal Translation
'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 --

Geneva Study Bible

If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his {k} mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

(k) For it is the mother's duty also to instruct her children.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

18-21. If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son-A severe law was enacted in this case. But the consent of both parents was required as a prevention of any abuse of it; for it was reasonable to suppose that they would not both agree to a criminal information against their son except from absolute necessity, arising from his inveterate and hopeless wickedness; and, in that view, the law was wise and salutary, as such a person would be a pest and nuisance to society. The punishment was that to which blasphemers were doomed [Le 24:23]; for parents are considered God's representatives and invested with a portion of his authority over their children.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:18-21 Observe how the criminal is here described. He is a stubborn and rebellious son. No child was to fare the worse for weakness of capacity, slowness, or dulness, but for wilfulness and obstinacy. Nothing draws men into all manner of wickedness, and hardens them in it more certainly and fatally, than drunkenness. When men take to drinking, they forget the law of honouring parents. His own father and mother must complain of him to the elders of the city. Children who forget their duty, must thank themselves, and not blame their parents, if they are regarded with less and less affection. He must be publicly stoned to death by the men of his city. Disobedience to a parent's authority must be very evil, when such a punishment was ordered; nor is it less provoking to God now, though it escapes punishment in this world. But when young people early become slaves to sensual appetites, the heart soon grows hard, and the conscience callous; and we can expect nothing but rebellion and destruction.


Exodus 20:12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
Leviticus 19:3 'Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the LORD your God.
Proverbs 1:8 Hear, my son, your father's instruction And do not forsake your mother's teaching;
Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. (NASB ©1995)

Apostatizing Attention Chasten Chastened Chastise Chastised Discipline Hard-Hearted Hearken Hearkeneth Hearkening Heed Mother Obey Punishment Rebellious Ruled Stubborn Uncontrolled Unmanageable Voice


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:

have a stubborn Pr 28:24 30:11,17 Isa 1:2

obey the voice De 27:16 Ex 20:12 21:15,17 Le 19:3 21:9 Pr 15:5 20:20 Eze 22:7

when they De 8:5 2Sa 7:14 Pr 13:24 19:18 22:15 23:13,14 29:17 Heb 12:9-11

will not Isa 1:5 Jer 5:3 31:18 Eze 24:13 Am 4:11,12

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