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Proverbs 23

Prov. 23:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Hearken
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
k unto thy father
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
that begat
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
thee, and despise
buwz (Hebrew #936)
to disrespect
KJV usage: contemn, despise, X utterly.
Pronounce: booz
Origin: a primitive root
not thy mother
'em (Hebrew #517)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like 1)
KJV usage: dam, mother, X parting.
Pronounce: ame
Origin: a primitive word
when she is old
zaqen (Hebrew #2204)
to be old
KJV usage: aged man, be (wax) old (man).
Pronounce: zaw-kane'
Origin: a primitive root
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Prov. 30:17• 17The 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. (Prov. 30:17)
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Eph. 6:1‑2• 1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
 2Honor thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) (Eph. 6:1‑2)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Hearken.
Prov. 1:8• 8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: (Prov. 1:8)
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Prov. 6:20• 20My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: (Prov. 6:20)
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Deut. 21:18‑21• 18If 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:
 19Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
 20And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
 21And 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. (Deut. 21:18‑21)
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Deut. 27:16• 16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen. (Deut. 27:16)
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Mark 7:10• 10For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: (Mark 7:10)
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Eph. 6:1‑2• 1Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
 2Honor thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) (Eph. 6:1‑2)
despise.
Prov. 30:11• 11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. (Prov. 30:11)
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Lev. 19:3• 3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. (Lev. 19:3)
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Matt. 15:4‑6• 4For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
 5But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
 6And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. (Matt. 15:4‑6)
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John 19:26‑27• 26When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!
 27Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. (John 19:26‑27)
• Exuberant youth, self-confident, and resourceful, is likely to forget the reverence due to parents when age enfeebles the once bright and active mind. (“Proverbs Twenty-Three” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.