1 Kings 12:14

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

1 Kings 12:13

And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;

Exodus 1:13

And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:

Exodus 1:14

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

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Proverbs 13:10

Only by pride comes contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler listen to lies, all his servants are wicked.

Proverbs 5:13

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!

Ecclesiastes 7:8

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Daniel 6:7

All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.