<p class="bodytext">If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,<n id="1" />

They must declare to the elders<n id="1" /> of his city, &#8220;Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say &#8211; he is a glutton and drunkard.&#8221;

Any man who rebels against what you say and does not obey all your commands will be executed.<n id="1" /> But<n id="2" /> be strong and brave!&#8221;p>

But if you don&#8217;t obey<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and rebel against what the <sc>Lordsc> says, the hand of the <sc>Lordsc> will be against both you and your king.<n id="2" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> saw Israel&#8217;s intense suffering;<n id="1" /> everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Then they will not be like their ancestors,p> <p class="poetry">who were a stubborn and rebellious generation,p> <p class="poetry">a generation that was not committedp> <p class="poetry">and faithful to God.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds,p> <p class="poetry">they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love,p> <p class="poetry">and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Jerusalem certainly stumbles,p> <p class="poetry">Judah falls,p> <p class="poetry">for their words and their actions offend the <sc>Lordsc>;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they rebel against his royal authority.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="lamhebrew">&#1510; (<i>Tsadei>)p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is right to judge me!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Yes, I rebelled against his commands.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Please listen, all you nations,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and look at my suffering!p> <p class="poetry">My young women and menp> <p class="poetry">have gone into exile.p>

<p class="poetry"><v id="(14:1)" /><n id="1" /> Samaria will be held guilty,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">because she rebelled against her God.p> <p class="poetry">They will fall by the sword,p> <p class="poetry">their infants will be dashed to the ground &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">their<n id="3" /> pregnant women will be ripped open.p>

Then Moses and Aaron gathered the community together in front of the rock, and he said to them, &#8220;Listen, you rebels,<n id="1" /> must we bring<n id="2" /> water out of this rock for you?&#8221;

&#8220;Aaron will be gathered to his ancestors,<n id="1" /> for he will not enter into the land I have given to the Israelites because both of you<n id="2" /> rebelled against my word<n id="3" /> at the waters of Meribah.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Remember &#8211; don&#8217;t ever forget<n id="1" /> &#8211; how you provoked the <sc>Lordsc> your God in the desert; from the time you left the land of Egypt until you came to this place you were constantly rebelling against him.<n id="2" />

And when he<n id="1" /> sent you from Kadesh-Barnea and told you, &#8220;Go up and possess the land I have given you,&#8221; you rebelled against the <sc>Lordsc> your God<n id="2" /> and would neither believe nor obey him.

for I know about your rebellion and stubbornness.<n id="1" /> Indeed, even while I have been living among you to this very day, you have rebelled against the <sc>Lordsc>; you will be even more rebellious after my death!<n id="2" />

If you fear the <sc>Lordsc>, serving him and obeying him<n id="1" /> and not rebelling against what he says,<n id="2" /> and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the <sc>Lordsc> your God, all will be well.<n id="3" />

David was very upset, for the men<n id="1" /> were thinking of stoning him;<n id="2" /> each man grieved bitterly<n id="3" /> over his sons and daughters. But David drew strength from the <sc>Lordsc> his God.p>

and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, &#8220;This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8216;You<n id="1" /> have rebelled against the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> and have not obeyed the command the <sc>Lordsc> your God gave you.

When the old prophet who had invited him to his house heard the news,<n id="1" /> he said, &#8220;It is the prophet<n id="2" /> who rebelled against the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" /> The <sc>Lordsc> delivered him over to the lion and it ripped him up<n id="4" /> and killed him, just as the <sc>Lordsc> warned him.&#8221;<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law.<n id="1" /> They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.