1 Kings 12:14 - King James 2000

¹⁴ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ and spake 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ 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; he chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ and instead followed the young people’s advice. He said, “My father made your workload heavy, but I’ll make it even heavier! My father disciplined you with whips, but I’ll do it with scorpions!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ And he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying: "My father weighed down your yoke, but I will add more to your yoke. My father cut you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions."

1 Kings 12:14 Tagairtí Cros

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, in which they made them serve, was with rigor.

Proverbs 12:5

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

Proverbs 13:10

Only by pride comes strife: but with the well advised 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 releasing water: therefore leave off contention, before a quarrel starts.

Proverbs 29:12

If a ruler hearkens 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 satraps, the counselors, and the advisors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, except from 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, boast not, and lie not against the truth.