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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 21:20

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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21:20 Calling someone a glutton and a drunkard was probably a proverbial cliché suggesting self-indulgence and laziness. Such a son was a good-for-nothing who rebelled against his parents and thus also against the community and divine authority (see Prov 23:20-21).
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