1 Kings 12:14

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Summary

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.

The counsel

My father made

James 4:1

General references

Proverbs 26:4

Bible References

The counsel

Wherefore he did the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh, like the house of Ahab, - for, they, became his counselors, after the death of his father, to his destruction.

Then said Memucan before the king and the rulers, Not against the king alone, hath Vashti the queen acted perversely, - but against all the rulers, and against all the peoples, who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.

Then said the young men of the king, who waited upon him, - Let them seek out for the king young virgins, of pleasing appearance;

The plans of the righteous, are just, but, the counsels of the lawless, are deceitful.

Surely, foolish, are the princes of Zoan, the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh, in counsel are brutish, - How can ye say unto Pharaoh, Son of the wise, am I Son of the kings of olden time?

All the ministers of the kingdom, the nobles and satraps, the near friends and the pashas, have consulted together, to establish a royal statute, and to confirm an interdict, - That, whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man, for thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.

My father made

Then spake unto him the young men who had grown up with him, saying, Thus, shalt thou say to this people that have spoken unto thee, saying - Thy father, made our yoke heavy, thou, therefore lighten it upon us, Thus, shalt thou speak unto them, My little finger, is thicker than my father's loins;

Only by pride, doth one cause contention, but, with the well-advised, is wisdom.

Before grievous injury, pride! and, before a fall, haughtiness of spirit!

A letting forth of water, is the beginning of strife, therefore, before it breaketh out, abandon, contention.

Better the latter end of a thing, than the beginning thereof, - Better a patient spirit, than a haughty spirit.

But, if, bitter jealousy, ye have, and rivalry, in your hearts; be not boasting and showing yourselves false against the truth!

Whence wars and whence fightings among you? are they not from hence - due to your pleasures which are taking the field in your members?

General references

Do not answer a dullard, according to his folly, lest, even thou thyself, become like him;