And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father hath chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.(1 Kings 12:11)

So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king had appointed, saying, Come to me again the third day.(1 Kings 12:12)

And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;(1 Kings 12:13)

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.

Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.(1 Kings 12:15)

So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.(1 Kings 12:16)

But as for the children of Israel which dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.(1 Kings 12:17)

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1 Kings 12:14 - Cross Reference

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. (Exodus 1:14)

The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with. (Proverbs 17:14)

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 people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus. (Esther 1:16)

There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. (Exodus 5:16)

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit. (Proverbs 12:5)

And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, but make thou it lighter unto us; thus shalt thou say unto them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. (1 Kings 12:10)

Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king: (Esther 2:2)

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 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. (Daniel 6:7)

And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. (Exodus 5:5)

Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counselors after the death of his father to his destruction. (2 Chronicles 22:4)

Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom. (Proverbs 13:10)

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. (James 3:14)

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. (Proverbs 16:18)

Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings? (Isaiah 19:11)

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. (Ecclesiastes 7:8)