1 Kings 12:14

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

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

1 Kings 12:13

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

Exodus 1:13

The Egyptians ruthlessly made the children of Yisra'el serve,

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, in which they ruthlessly made them serve.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

Proverbs 13:10

Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

Proverbs 16:18

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

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler listens to lies, all of his officials are wicked.

Proverbs 5:13

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

Ecclesiastes 7:8

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

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 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 jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.