Proverbs 23:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.

Proverbs 23:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 13:24
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs 29:17
Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.
Proverbs 29:15
The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Proverbs 19:18
Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-16)

Here is, 1. A parent instructing his child. He is here brought in persuading him to give his mind to his book, and especially to the scriptures and his catechism, to attend to the words of knowledge, by which he might come to know his duty, and danger, and interest, and not to think it enough to give them the hearing, but to apply his heart to them, to delight in them, and bow his will to the auth…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13-14. While there is little danger that the use of the “divine ordinance of the rod” will produce bodily harm, there is great hope of spiritual good.