24Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
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He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. …
And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the LORD, my son.
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24)As Christ shows the absurdity and wickedness of those children who think it is no duty, in some cases, to maintain their parents (Matt. 15:5), so Solomon here shows the absurdity and wickedness of those who think it is no sin to rob their parents, either by force or secretly, by wheedling them or threatening them, or by wasting what they have, and (which is no better than robbing them) running int…
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