1 Kings 12:13

Rehoboam Responds Unwisely With Disastrous Results

¹² And when Jeroboam and all the people were come to Rehoboam the third day - as the king appointed them, saying, "Come to me again this day three days" - ¹³ the king answered the people churlishly and left the advice that old men gave him: ¹⁴ and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, "My father made your yoke grievous, but I will make it grievouser. For where my father chastised you with whips, I will chastise you with scorpions."

Counsel of the Elders

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Genesis 16:6

Then said Abram to Sarai, "Behold, thy maid is in thy hand, do with her as it pleaseth thee." And because Sarai fared foul with her, she fled from her.

Genesis 42:7

When Joseph saw his brethren, he knew them: But made strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them saying, "Whence come ye?" And they said, "Out of the land of Canaan, to buy victuals."

Genesis 42:30

"The lord of the land spake roughly to us, and took us for spies to search the country.

Exodus 5:2

And Pharaoh answered, "What fellow is the LORD, that I should hear his voice for to let Israel go?

Exodus 10:28

And Pharaoh said unto him, "Get thee from me and take heed to thyself that thou see my face no more. For whensoever thou comest in my sight, thou shalt die."

Judges 12:1-6

And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, "Wherefore wentest thou to fight with the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? We will therefore burn thine house upon thee with fire."

1 Samuel 20:10

Then said David, "Who shall tell me, if thy father answer cruelly?"

1 Samuel 20:30-31

Then was Saul angry with Jonathan and said unto him, "O froward and rebellious, thinkest thou I know not how thou hast chosen the son of Jesse unto thine own rebuke, and unto the rebuke and shame of thy mother?

1 Samuel 25:10-11

And Nabal answered David's servants and said, "What is David? And what is the son of Jesse? There is plenty of servants nowadays, that break away every man from his master.

2 Samuel 19:43

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah and said, "We have ten parts in the king, and have thereto more right to David than ye. Why then did ye despise us, that our advice had not been first had in restoring our king again?" And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.

1 Kings 20:6-11

Or else I will send my servants unto thee by tomorrow this time: and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants, which shall take all that is glorious in thine eyes, and bring it away with them.'"

Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life; but the mouth of the ungodly is past shame, and presumptuous.

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous are occupied in acceptable things; but the mouth of the ungodly taketh them to the worst.

Proverbs 13:20

He that goeth in the company of wise men, shall be wise; but whoso is a companion of fools shall be hurt.

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer putteth down displeasure, but froward words provoke anger.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor maketh supplication and prayeth meekly; but the rich giveth a rough answer.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

The words out of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will destroy himself.

James 3:17

but the wisdom that is from above, is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, and without simulation.