To smite either father or mother, in a manner which indicated either contempt or malice, or left marks of violence, was deemed a proof of so ungrateful and unnatural a disposition, that no provocation was admitted as an excuse, but the offence was made capital. Nay, he who cursed his father or mother, who uttered imprecations, ill wishes, or revilings, against a parent, was included in the same sense; though few crimes were made capital by the law of Moses. The law of God, as delegated to parents is honoured when they are honoured, and despised when they are despised, and to rebel against the lawful exercise of this authority is rebellion against God. - Rev. T. Scott
Deuteronomy 21:18-
21 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: ... And
all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die:
so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and
all Israel shall hear, and fear.
Deuteronomy 27:24 Cursed [
be] he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Proverbs 30:11 [
There is]
a generation [that] curseth their father, and
doth not bless their mother.
Proverbs 30:17 The
eye [
that] mocketh at [
his] father, and despiseth to obey [
his] mother,
the ravens of the
valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.
1 Timothy 1:9 Knowing this, that
the law is not made for a righteous man, but for
the lawless and
disobedient, for
the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and
profane, for
murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for
manslayers,
