If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...

Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being. 

The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.

 Deuteronomy 5:9 

"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."

Deuteronomy 24:16

"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin."

.   The Chancellor has been stranded several times — in Algeria President Bouteflika lent her his plane so that she could fly home.This time it was supposed to be different but Iran soon put paid to that. Even though Iran had been informed of the flight plan, Ms Merkel’s aircraft was blocked when it tried to cross from Turkey. The pilots negotiated for 20 minutes with air traffic control but then the Iranians refused to talk and the plane was forced to stay circling over Turkey and apply again for clearance. 

Nico Fried, of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, said: “The circling continued for two hours. Sometimes we would see the dawn breaking on the left of the plane, sometimes on the right.” One theory is that Iran has been eager to punish the Chancellor for closing down the European-Iranian Trading Bank in Hamburg after the US complained that it was breaking sanctions by funnelling payments from India for Iranian oil. Reason enough to upset the Chancellor’s flight in her new aircraft? According to one reporter: “She slept like a log and missed all the action.”