1 Kings 12:14

A Conservative Version

and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

Cross References

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.

Daniel 6:7

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god o

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning of it. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is [like] letting out water. Therefore leave off contention, before there is quarrelling.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride [is] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 13:10

Through pride a vain man causes contention, but wisdom is with the well-advised.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just. The counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Exodus 1:14

And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, with which they made them serve with rigor.

Exodus 1:13

And the Egyptians made the sons of Israel to serve with rigor.

1 Kings 12:13

And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler hearkens to falsehood, all his servants are wicked.

Proverbs 5:13

Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to those who instructed me!