1 Kings 12:14

Revised Version 1885

and spake 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

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

Exodus 1:13

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

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, wherein they made them serve with rigour.

Proverbs 12:5

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

Proverbs 13:10

By pride cometh only contention: But with the well advised is wisdom.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goeth before destruction, And an haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 17:14

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: Therefore leave off contention, before there be quarrelling.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler hearkeneth to falsehood, All his servants are wicked.

Proverbs 5:13

Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine 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 deputies and the satraps, the counsellors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.