Devine Scripture

1 Kings 12:14

1 Kings chapter 12 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.13And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

v.14This passage

v.15So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was a thing brought about of Jehovah, that he might establish his word, which Jehovah spake by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Proverbs 12:5

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

  • Esther 1:16

    And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the peoples that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.

  • Exodus 5:5

    And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many, and ye make them rest from their burdens.

  • 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.

  • Proverbs 16:18

    Pridegoethbefore destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.